Cognitive Linguistic Profile Post Road Traffic Accident

In India the incidence of Road Traffic accidents is reported to be 4, 64, 910 in 2017 among which 1, 47, 913 lives were dead and 4, 70, 975 persons were injured. Road traffic accidents result in various complications which will affect the person's quality of life. One such complication is cognitive linguistic deficit. This case study is about a young man who has cognitive linguistic deficit which is a result of road traffic accident. The patient exhibited several complex cognitive-linguistic issues during the assessment. This includes reduced semantic memory, spared generative memory, reduced speech intelligibility, extensive surgical management and other behavioural problems. And he has speech and language difficulties such as reduced speech intelligibility, paraphasia, circumlocutions were present.