It has often been suggested that drawing could be a useful communicative aid for aphasic subjects (Leischner 1991, Lyon 1995). It could substitute oral and written expression in severely impaired patients; otherwise, it could be used to support spontaneous speech when paraphasic errors and anomic pauses prevent communication. Single case reports are consistent with this suggestion. Gourevitch (1967) described a patient with Wemicke's aphasia who mailed postcards on which he drew pictures and cartoons to replace impaired written spelling. Sabadel, a patient reported by Pillon et al. (1980), used drawings as auto-generated cues to retrieve the object names from the phonological lexicon.

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Cubelli, Roberto
1995-01-01

Abstract

It has often been suggested that drawing could be a useful communicative aid for aphasic subjects (Leischner 1991, Lyon 1995). It could substitute oral and written expression in severely impaired patients; otherwise, it could be used to support spontaneous speech when paraphasic errors and anomic pauses prevent communication. Single case reports are consistent with this suggestion. Gourevitch (1967) described a patient with Wemicke's aphasia who mailed postcards on which he drew pictures and cartoons to replace impaired written spelling. Sabadel, a patient reported by Pillon et al. (1980), used drawings as auto-generated cues to retrieve the object names from the phonological lexicon.
1995
no. 1
Cubelli, Roberto
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