Abstract
Abstract One of the greatest challenges presented to the profession of speech-language pathology is the communication rehabilitation of severe and global aphasics. The language of Bliss symbols (Bliss 1965) has not been widely explored with aphasics, but a few reports in the literature have been very encouraging (Saya 1978, Johannson-Horbach. Cegla, Ma-ger and Schempp 1985). Previous work has raised several questions: what type of patient is best suited to Bliss. what treatment methods are most successful; does the complexity of the symbol affect learning, and can Bliss symbols be ordered syntactically? It has also emphasized the need to investigate whether or not severe non-verbal aphasics, already discharged from ‘traditional’ therapy could be formally taught a graphic symbol system, such as Bliss, and then use the system functionally.
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