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| Author(s): |
Glenda Saccomano Castro
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Ciências Médicas |
| Defense date: | 2010-09-02 |
| Examining board members: |
Ivone Panhoca;
Ana Paula de Freitas;
Evani Andreatta Amaral Camargo
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| Advisor: | Ivone Panhoca; Maria de Lurdes Zanolli |
| Abstract | |
This research objective was to analyze the communicative interaction process of two children, aged 9 and 12, who showed autistic behaviors associated to Down syndrome, and between these two children and their therapist, focusing in on verbal and non-verbal communication modalities performed during make-believe activities. The children attend a special institution located in the interior of São Paulo State daily, and they have peculiar life stories: one of them has been living in an orphanage since the age of 3 months, and the other lives with their paternal mother, as determined by the law due to a disturbed life with episodes of aggression, rejection and negligence inflicted by the mother, from the socio-historical-affective point of view. The study has been guided by the qualitative research principles that take part in the sociohistorical orientation. The data were collected during weekly sessions with a phono-audiologist in the institution they go to, in a period of 6 months, each session lasting approximately one hour. After selecting the most significant episodes for this study, done through videotaping the sessions and getting the transcripts; the data have been analyzed taking into account the premises of micro genetics analyses (that evidence the detailed analyzes of a process); regarding the evidence paradigm formulations (that point to the importance of details, evidences). The results have shown that, starting with a therapist's mediation, the children present communicative intention and interest in interaction more frequently, using non-verbal communication and a start of verbal communication (one of them), during make-believe activities. Therefore, it has been concluded that children show qualitative development in communicative interaction, as much as among themselves as between them and the therapist, which makes it possible to build up and share meanings, introducing these subjects into the situations experienced there (AU) | |