Mappingmetoden och bildmaterialet Everyday Life Activities – behandling av agrammatism hos personer med afasi av Broca-typ

摘要

This pilot study describes a therapy method for persons withBroca´s aphasia. This method is based on the mapping hypothesis (Schwartz,Saffran & Marin 1980). The mapping hypothesis is based on the assumptionthat agrammatism is caused by an inability to combine syntactic structurewith thematic roles. This study describes a combination of the therapymethod mentioned above and the Everyday life activities photo series (ELA,Stark 1992). The aim of the study was to investigate if therapy based on awritten sentence/picture format is a viable starting-point for future research.The therapy presented combined written sentences with pictures describingeveryday life activities. Therapy aimed to improve auditory comprehensionand it was expected that this improvement should be reflected in gains inspeech production. The subject was asked to identify verb, agent and themein sentences of varying length. Evaluation indicated an improvement of thesubject´s auditory comprehension abilities as well as speech productionabilities. Further research is needed to determine if these results are directlyrelated to the treatment method described in this study. This study is a pilotstudy but a project plan describing a multiple baseline across behavioursand subjects design study with three patients is included.