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KMID : 0917520020090030113
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Journal of Speech Sciences
2002 Volume.9 No. 3 p.113 ~ p.120
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The Effects of Group Therapy on the Language Performance of Aphasics
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The purpiose of this study was to determine the effects of group therapy on the language performance of aphasic patients. Four aphasic subjects participated in group therapy. Their aphasic types were TCMA (transcortical motor aphasia), conduction, anomic, and Broca´s aphasia. The focus of the therapy was to stimulate cooperative learning skills. For this purpose, categorization tasks, semantic association tasks, convergent thinking, and divergent thinking tasks were employed. The results showed that all of the aphasic subjects demonstarted some improvement in writing ability, categorization ability, and speaking ability in sentences.
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