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Effects of the Speech Therapy Program Based Augmented Reality on Improving Naming and Functional Communication Ability of the Patients with Expressive Aphasia

  • The Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies
  • Abbr : JTS
  • 2017, 1(1), pp.57-67
  • DOI : 10.22685/JTS.2017.1.1.057
  • Publisher : The Society for Transdisciplinary Studies
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : November 1, 2017
  • Accepted : December 4, 2017
  • Published : December 31, 2017

An, Sinwook 1 Geun-Hyo Kim 2 Hee-June Park 3 Kwon, Soon-Bok 4

1부산대병원
2부산대학교 이비인후과
3춘해보건대학교
4부산대학교

ABSTRACT

The central goal of language therapy for aphasia should be to improve the patient’s everyday language competence. However, the functional communication approach is difficult to apply in the clinical field, so most treatments are symptom-oriented. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the speech therapy program based augmented reality is effective in improving the naming and functional communication ability of the patients with expressive aphasia. Five patients with expressive aphasia participated in the experiment where the naming and functional communication scores were compared before and after treatment. For treatment, the augmented reality contents similar to those of the home environment (room, living room, bathroom, and kitchen) were produced and presented to the patient in the form of a script. Then, when the subjects recognized such marks with a camera, three-dimensional models corresponding to the marks were indicated in the relevant card presenting the image to the subjects on the monitor. The study result showed that All of the subjects' response scores were improved. According to the results of the study, the post-treatment Naming Ability scores (38.4) were higher than the pre-treatment (26), whereas the post-treatment Functional Communication Ability scores (48.4) were higher than the pre-treatment (33). The speech therapy program based augmented reality can complement the symptom-oriented treatment and make the functional communication approach possible.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.