Alternative communication for children with cerebral palsy non verbal: programs for context of daily life

• Grant number: 14/17741-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: December 01, 2014
• End date: August 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Specific topics in Education
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Claudia Maria Simões Martinez
• Grantee: Mariana Gurian Manzini
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Children with complex communication needs benefit from programs aimed at guidance and instrumentation of the user, family and school. This research aims to develop, implement and analyze the effectiveness of an individualized program of alternative communication for nonverbal children with cerebral palsy applied in three contexts of their daily life. Part is the hypothesis that the implementation of this program and the supports offered by their parents, teachers and therapists in three contexts of development can intensify and increase the quality of the repertoire of communicative skills. This research will be conducted: in schools directly with teachers; in the clinical environment with occupational therapists and family environment of children, directly to mothers or other family member in case of impediments mother. Participants are 03 children diagnosed with nonverbal cerebral palsy, aged between 6 and 12 years, and their therapists, parents and teachers. The design to be used will be the baseline for multiple situations. Qualitative instruments relating to the content and features of participants (interviews and clinical data) and relevant to the measurement of the intervention (protocol) quantitative tools will be used. There is increased communication skills for greater participation of children in this sample in different contexts, activities and academic tasks are expected. (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)

MANZINI, MARIANA GURIAN; SIMOES MARTINEZ, CLAUDIA MARIA; LOURENCO, GERUSA FERREIRA; OLIVEIRA, BARBARA DE BRITO. Alternative communication training of interlocutors for children with cerebral palsy. CADERNOS BRASILEIROS DE TERAPIA OCUPACIONAL-BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, v. 25, n. 3, p. 553-564, 2017. (14/17741-6)

MARIANA GURIAN MANZINI; DANIEL MARINHO CEZAR DA CRUZ; MARIA AMÉLIA ALMEIDA; CLAUDIA MARIA SIMÕES MARTINEZ. Programa de Comunicação Alternativa para uma Criança com Paralisia Cerebral e seus Parceiros de Comunicação: um Estudo de Delineamento de Múltiplas Sondagens. Rev. bras. educ. espec., v. 25, n. 4, p. 553-570, 2019-11-25. (14/17741-6)

MARIANA GURIAN MANZINI; MIRELA DE OLIVEIRA FIGUEIREDO; ANA CAROLINA GURIAN MANZINI; CLAUDIA MARIA SIMÕES MARTINEZ. Terapia ocupacional e comunicação alternativa: intervenção colaborativa com os parceiros de comunicação de uma criança com paralisia cerebral. CADERNOS BRASILEIROS DE TERAPIA OCUPACIONAL-BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, v. 29, 2021-04-05. (14/17741-6)