ART BASED EDUCATION AS THE MEAN OF IMPROVEMENT COMMUNICATION SKILLS OF PERSONS WITH NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS

Abstract

Art education could be applied improving of communication skills in patients with multiple sclerosis. Applied art education activities based on the pilot research data proved that personal motivation for active participant in social life could be promote by optimizing communication skills. Problems of communications skills in MS first of all are liked to somatic and neurological problems, but from the point of view of social paradigm – person’s communication problems deals with effective social participation and social involvement into society. It becomes an essential issue of social participants and integration talking about the concept of long life learning. The aim of research is to prove and reveal changing characteristics of communication skills of MS persons under the influence of art education. KEY WORDS: Communication dimensions, art based education; patients with multiple sclerosis.