Specifics of the Clinical Speech‑therapist’s Work with an Aphasic Patient with Hearing Impairment Cover Image

Osobitosti práce klinického logopéda so sluchovo postihnutým afatickým pacientom
Specifics of the Clinical Speech‑therapist’s Work with an Aphasic Patient with Hearing Impairment

Author(s): Mária Masárová, Karel Neubauer
Subject(s): School education, Vocational Education, Inclusive Education / Inclusion
Published by: Vydavateľstvo Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove
Keywords: person with hearing impairment; hearing disorders; communication tolls for people with hearing impairment; cerebral‑vascular diseases; aphasias; Lurija–Cvetkova;

Summary/Abstract: Presented paper offers theoretical and practical knowledge within the field of assessment and therapy of higher mental functions according to Lurija‑Cvetkova method for a person with severe sensory (hearing) impairments with aphasia after sudden vascular stroke. Authors state, in the clinical speech‑therapeutic practice, very current issue ofcerebral‑vascular diseases, most often sudden vascular strokes, or other bearing brain lesions, e.g. tumours, injuries, which may conclude in speech disorder, aphasias. Aphasias isan obtained disorder of communication skills, which occurs in the lesion injuries in a brainas a consequence of systematic influence of a brain lesion on the higher mental functions in a man. However, through a comprehensive analysis of psychological processes disordersin different brain injuries it is possible to recover higher mental functions only by properly organized recovering learning.

  • Issue Year: 6/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 50-60
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Slovak