The goal of the present study was to determine whether
chronic post-stroke patients with motor aphasia have impaired
inner speech abilities and whether they use inner speech in
everyday life. To answer these questions, we recruited eight
chronic post-stroke aphasic patients and 13 cognitively
healthy adults, who underwent testing on a range of
evaluative tests and four experiments specifically designed for
the purposes of this study. The experimental results suggest
that post-stroke patients with motor aphasia have impaired
inner speech. However, patients’ subjective reports indicate
that they use various types of inner speech, despite the
observed deficit. Taken together, our data suggest that
impairment of certain aspects of inner speech may still allow
a degree of use of other aspects of inner speech, emphasizing
a need to extend research on inner speech in aphasia to the
variety of its forms.