highly significantp < 0.05
In the sub-acute phase, results revealed a very strong and highly significant positive correlation between spontaneous speech and language quotient ( r = 0.97, p < 0.05), a moderate positive correlation was observed between auditory verbal comprehension and language quotient ( r = 0.56, p < 0.05), a strong and statistically significant positive correlation between repetition and language quotient ( r = 0.82, p < 0.05) and a very strong and highly significant positive correlation was noted between naming and language quotient ( r = 0.86, p < 0.05).