Abstract
Recently, the research of the medical equipment has been developed and applied to the cognitive rehabilitation frequently. Modified Attention process training (M-APT) has been introduced as cognitive rehabilitation for the improvement of the attention function that is the base of the cognitive function. The reports say M-APT has improved not only the attention function, but also the motivation and the social extroversion. The author performed the activation training of the attention function of the cerebrovascular disease patients, and examined what influence the improvement of attention function gave to the language function, communication skills and the intelligent function. The author examined the cards classification problem in M-APT on eight cerebrovascular disease patients, and trail making test-A・B, standard language test of aphasia, the communication ADL test and mini-mental state examination were performed before and behind the cards classification problem. The results of each evaluation of the cards classification problem were analyzed in statistics.As a result, the attention function, the language function and communication skills have improved respectively before and after the attention activation training. The attention function is a base of all the cognitive ones. The improvement of the attention function has a great influence on the language function and communication skills were suggested.
