This experiment used picture drawing to facilitate language activity of 2 severe aphasics with semantic impairment.
Case 1 learned to draw the scenes from his activity of daily living (ADL) in order. Following this, his verbal comprehension capacity and utterances in daily conversation improved. The drawing training seemed to enable him to represent the syntagmatic differences among acts, scenes, things and words, facilitating his language activity.
Case 2 learnd to draw the spaces of his ADL. Following this, his verbal comprehension capacity in stereotyped daily conversation improved, and utterance began to appear occasionally. The drawing training enable him to represent the contiguous differences among spaces, acts and words, facilitating his language activity.
These results suggest that, in severe aphasics with semantic impairment, picture drawing training of ADL activate differentiative activity and facilitate language activity, at their each own potential level.

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