ABSTRACT
In the spring of 1994, Stuart Carter was working at his house when he suffered a stroke. He was 36 years old at the time and owned a pecan farm in the Southwest. He remembers working on the books for the farm on a Friday night, when he suddenly felt that something was wrong. Medical records indicate that on April 8, 1994, Stuart suffered a unilateral intracerebral hemorrhage on the left side of his brain, which resulted in expressive aphasia and hemiplegia, with weakness in the right side of his body. Using miscue analysis as a research tool to investigate Stuart’s oral reading, it supports and extends Ken Goodman’s transactional and Sociopsycholinguistic model of reading, offering a new perspective to reimagine the meaning of literacy competence in the case of readers with aphasia. Throughout the decades, and even as far back as the 16th century, researchers have used aphasia as a source of clinical experimentation.
