MINIMUM GESTURE: Study of multimodal resources (verbal aspects, gestures, body and material world) in the interactions involving children with ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorders)

• Grant number: 18/07565-7
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: October 01, 2018
• End date: December 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Fernanda Miranda da Cruz
• Grantee: Fernanda Miranda da Cruz
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Ana Carina Tamanaha ; Indaiá de Santana Bassani ; Rafael Dias Minussi
• Associated scholarship(s): 20/01199-9 - Working with linguistic-interaction data with software and support to the linguistic research of the Laboratory of Multimodality/UNIFESP, BP.TT; 19/01886-9 - Working with linguistic-interaction data with software and support to the linguistic research of the laboratory of Multimodality/UNIFESP, BP.TT; 18/24794-0 - Working with linguistic-interaction data with software and support to the linguistic research of the laboratory of Multimodality/UNIFESP, BP.TT

Abstract

This proposal aims to investigate and systematize, descriptively and analytically, the relations between language, body and material world constitutive of our human interactions. These relationships will be explored in a specific empirical context: everyday co-presence interactions between children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and various interlocutors. The ASD correspond to a relatively heterogeneous group of conditions that affect neurocognitive development and compromise the development of language and social interaction. We will work based on an audiovisual corpora. The records were carried out in institutions for children diagnosed as ASD. This project focuses on 1) the analysis of daily interactions that have the presence/participation of subjects with a diagnosis of ASD based on an embodied interaction perspective; 2) the study of the status and role of gestures, body and material world in the construction and constitution of human interaction and its relation with linguistic-cognitive processes; 3) to highlight questions related to the field of videoanalysis, such as: procedures for recording interactions in complex environments (involving many participants, use of objects and body movement); the construction of audiovisual corpora for linguistic-interaction research; the invitation to a visual analytical mentality of human social interactions involving not only the verbal aspects that constitute it, but also the physical space, the body and the material world. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SIMONI CAMILO; FERNANDA MIRANDA DA CRUZ; SHEILA C CAETANO; JACY PERISSINOTO; ANA CARINA TAMANAHA. Padrão pré-verbal e verbal como preditores para implementação do Picture Exchange Communication System - PECS em crianças autistas. Revista CEFAC, v. 25, n. 6, 2023-11-27. (18/07565-7)

MAYARA KAMIMURA SUGAHARA; SIMONI CAMILO SILVA; MONICA SCATTOLIN; FERNANDA MIRANDA DA CRUZ; JACY PERISSINOTO; ANA CARINA TAMANAHA. Estudo exploratório sobre análise multimodal da atenção compartilhada. Audiol., Commun. Res., v. 27, 2022-07-25. (18/07565-7)