Visual Action Therapy

In the Visual Action Therapy (VAT) is a non-verbal therapy concept, which, like the MIT (Melodic intonation therapy) was developed by Nancy Helm-Estabrooks and her colleagues in Boston (Harvard).

The aim of the concept is to use compensatory gestural symbols for actions and objects if these cannot be articulated verbally.

Target audience and restrictions

The therapeutic approach was developed for severe aphasia (global aphasia) with mild to severe accompanying apractical disorders. The exercise program can also be used in the case of visual perception disorders, because an assignment of images (different perspectives) to objects and gestures to images is practiced.

execution

Gestures (e.g. eating, drinking, cutting, shaving, combing, writing, reading, telephoning) are worked out with the patient in small steps in visual-gestural training. These gestures should make it easier for the patient to communicate in everyday life.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ N. Helm-Estabrooks, PM Fitzpatrick, B. Barresi: Visual action therapy for global aphasia . In: J Speech Hear Disord . tape 47 , no. 4 , 1982, pp. 385-389 , PMID 6194372 .

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