Neurol. praxi. 2012;13(6):311-313

Are the diagnostic tests used in clinical practice able to detect impaired communication ability in patients

Mgr.Ľubica Petričková¹, PhDr.Veronika Šteňová, PhD.¹, PaedDr.Jana Marková, PhD.²

¹ Ambulancia klinickej logopédie, Nemocnica s poliklinikou akad. L. Dérera, UNB, Bratislava

² Ústav psychologických a logopedických štúdií, Katedra logopédie, PdF UK, Bratislava

with a gradually increasing organic brain damage?

Speech intervention pushes its boundaries. The diagnostic, therapy and prevention of speech and language disorders get from the

word-level to the text and context level. It also focuses on the intervention of the cognitive-communication deficits. The research at the

Department of Neurosurgery in Bratislava on 16 patients with low-grade gliomas showed that such a shift in speech therapy intervention

in practice is very necessary. Administration of diagnostic tools only on level of words would not revealed a deficit of context in half of

patients and in three patients would not be revealed a cognitive deficit. Ignoring these deficits would make the speech and language therapy

for patients ineffective and in many cases unsuccessful.

Keywords: communication disorder, diagnostics, gliomas, cognitive-communication disorder, discourse

Published: December 1, 2012  Show citation