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The cortical interconnections were measured using the EEG non-linear index of cross approximate entropy (C-ApEn).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The analysis of EEG showed that, after the treatment, the activated connectivity was all in the left hemisphere, and not only regions in the speech articulation network but also in the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in the domain-general network were activated in the tDCS group. In contrast, the connectivity was confined to the right hemisphere and between bilateral DLPFC and bilateral inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) in the control group. In AoS assessments, the tDCS group improved significantly more than the control group in four of the five subtests. The results of multivariate linear regression analyses showed that only the group was significantly associated with the improvement of word repetition (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.002).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>A-tDCS over the left lip region of M1 coupled with speech therapy could upregulate the connectivity of both speech-specific and domain-general networks in the left hemisphere. 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