3.5.2 Home Practice Guides: Visual Action Therapy (VAT)
This guide introduces Visual Action Therapy (VAT), a method designed for individuals with severe aphasia. It progresses from matching objects to pictures, to producing gestures that represent those objects, building a foundation for functional communication.
Suitable For
- Individuals with severe aphasia
- Patients with very weak verbal expression and comprehension
Objectives
- To improve non-verbal communication abilities using gestures and pictures.
- To teach the use of symbolic gestures to represent objects and actions.
- To establish a reliable basic communication system.
Description
This guide introduces Visual Action Therapy (VAT), a method designed for individuals with severe aphasia. It progresses from matching objects to pictures, to producing gestures that represent those objects, building a foundation for functional communication.