The Effect of the Imagery Therapy on the Aphasic's Ability of Associating Objects with Colors and Naming Parts of the Face

Ko, Un

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Commun Sci Disord. 2002;7(2): 86-105.

Un Ko^`

고은(Un Ko)

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect s of the imagery therapy on the (1) associating object s with color s and (2) naming part s of the face. The application of imagery therapy has it s foundation on the science of cognitive neuropsychology with the aim of activating the cognitive processes before speech . Six aphasic patient s participated in the study . Three of them were trained with association tasks and the other s were trained with naming tasks. Result s showed significant differences on speech performance between the two experimental condition s. It seems that the important variable regarding the positive effect s is the degree of activation of an imagery perception, not the degree of speech disability or type of aphasia.

Keywords: 언어치료 | 실어증 | 인지신경심리학 | 심상기법