On one system of methods of aphasics group rehabilitation.

One of the main and actual tasks of aphasic re-education is the development of group rehabilitation methods which contribute to the restoration of verbal communication and to the surmounting of personality problems in aphasics. In this paper, a new method for group lessons with aphasics is described. It is founded on theoretical conceptions concerning the relation between the word and its sensory basis and the problems of visual object images in aphasia. The group lesson is a system of methods including: (1) group discussion and classification of objects with a view to deblock verbal associations on the given theme; (2) drawing of objects or coding in drawing the meaning of utterances on this theme; (3) recognition of sensibilized pictures (patients' drawings). We have proposed two variants of the method: The first is to actualize the names for objects and the second one to increase the aphasics capacity for sentence making. This method was used in small therapeutic groups of aphasics and the influence of selected group factors on the patients' speech activity was studied. The described method ensures the system influence principle in the rehabilitation of aphasics.