The history of an aphasia case: a semiotic direction to the phonoaudiologic thinking

Abstract

In our speech pathology work with aphasic subjects, we are concerned with the understanding of symptomatology as well as the comprehension of process of language (re)organization. Due to this reason, we believe that the consideration of these subject’s history would be the only way of coming across their subjectivity. As the subject’s saying of his own History is pervaded by individual senses – confer Vygotsky – it demonstrates, in fact, the relations which are kept in this new linguistic conduct, and, furthermore, the process involved in the therapeutic development. In this work, we analyzed an aphasic case, and we realized that the senses ended up being privileged, because they can be dealt with more directly than the meanings frozen in culture.