The semiology of disabilities in rehabilitation

Id 30
Topic Specific Condition & Disabilities
Main Speaker Jean Michel WIROTIUS France
Co Speakers
Attendees
Extra Fees

The semiology of diseases is a semiotics of signs that allows us to interpret symptoms to catalog the lesions in question. Its purpose is a tree-like and universal classification of diseases to constitute a dictionary that is as differentiated and precise as possible.

If it is decisive for diseases, it is on the contrary irrelevant in Rehabilitation and even blocks its clinical reading. The semiology of disabilities uses tensive semiotics to analyze functions which are the conversions of deviant forms and constitutes, not a dictionary, but a functional grammar by analyzing not binary signs (present/absent) but gradual, continuous, and unstable phenomena, moving according to situations: the functions.