Oskar Schindler’s Approach to Communication and Language Disorders
Irene Vernero, Anna Accornero, Sabrina Trabucchi, Patrizia Cancialosi
The School of Turin, as Schindler defined it back in the 1970s and 1980s, aims to offer a contribution and interpretation of what Oskar Schindler theorized in the different fields of phoniatric and logopaedic competence, and what he practiced with intense inter-professional clinical activity. From the original interpretation of what were considered hearing, voice and speech, and written and spoken language disorders, as much more complex phenomena determined by the decision-making and cognitive style of the individual, whether child, adult, old, healthy or sick, to the concept of communication that best suits the rehabilitation discipline, with the conviction that verbality represents the most sophisticated and complete aspect of communication between individuals. His intense didactic activity, his human qualities and his ability to divulge information led him to take an interest in all areas of the physiopathology of communication, producing the first Italian bibliography on the subject; the selected bibliography attached retraces its phases.
Keywords
Oskar Schindler, Physiopathology of communication, Individual profile, Speech and language therapy, Phoniatrics.