F-4-01-03
DRAWING AS A THERAPEUTIC-DIAGNOSTIC INDEX IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY TREATMENT OF STUTTERING
Vera R. Radicevic, Slavica Pantelic and Ivan Radicevic: Institute for Experimental Phonetics and Speech Pathology, Srbija, Yugos1avia
Our clinical practice has proved that only multidisciplinar approach in the treatment of stuttering can lead to successful results of the Th. treatment. The aim of this work is to show that complex etyopathogenesisi of stuttering demands different Th techniques which, by a psichophysiological approach, lead to the complete curing, whilst each psychophysiological stage is projected through a drawing, as a reflection of therapeutic achievements and further directives of Th.
METHOD: case representation. Applied Th. techniques: regression, chiropractic, "conscious synthesis", drawing etc.
RESULTS: Since the previously applied techniques did not have successful results, after the analysis of a drawing of human figure we have firstly decided on Th. treatment by the means of regression. After certain positive results we introduced chiropractic and, finally, speech exercises "conscious synthesis" which led to the successful results of the treatment.
CONCLUSION: This case points to the complexity of causal-consequential factors in tea appearance of stuttering. To know these factors is a condition for the successful therapeutically techniques alongside with multidisciplinarity is most important. In all this (choice and sequence of the introduction of certain therapeutical models) drawing in general, and especially the drawing of human figure is of an utmost importance.
F-4-01-04
COGNITION DISORDRERS OF VISUAL WORD FORMS
Jun Tanemura (Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, Kurashiki, Japan), Akiko Tanaka, Aoi Fujita, Akio Tsubahara, Ken Akashi (Kawasaki Medical School), Takako Shinkai (Nippon Medical School)
Abstract: Two dyslexic patients who could read Kana words correctly, but showed semantic paralexias and regularization errors in reading Kanji words were examined. In lexical decision tasks using the combinations of Kanji two letters as stimuli, that determine whether the stimuli are real words or not, the subjects recognized real words as real words, but also nonwords as real words. In visual input lexicon these symptoms were considered to be cognition disorders of word forms. It suggested that the cognition disorders interfered with accessing semantic representations and processing phonological representations of Kanji letters.
