Pessoas com surdocegueira e com deficiência múltipla: análise de relações de comunicação

• Autor(a) principal: Boas, Denise Cintra Villas
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11979
• topic: Transtornos da Surdocegueira; Comunicação; Atenção; Educação especial; Deaf-blind disorders; Communication; Attention; Speech language and hearing sciences; Special education; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::FONOAUDIOLOGIA

With congenital deafblindness and multiple disabilities need help to understand the world around them and have access to information. In many cases, they do not use speech as their main form of communication, and may use non-verbal ways of communication. These ways are sometimes unknown to professionals or family members. Aim: to analyze attention behaviors and communication behaviors between a teacher and deafblind and multiple disabilities children and to analyze this same teacher s perception about the attention and communication strategies she developed, in caring for these children. Method: this qualitative research, supported by a case-study method, is composed by two different studies. The first is a description of attention behaviors (attention to people, attention to objects and joint attention) and of communication behaviors (communication forms used by the students, communication forms used by the teacher and moments when turn taking occurs), conducted by participative observation and audio-visual recordings of interaction during classroom activities of two sets of partners: the first, a specialized teacher and a child with congenital deafblindness (S1), and, the second, the same teacher and a child with multiple disabilities (S2). The data were transcribed, the interaction moments were registered in field notes; the potential situations corresponding to attention behaviors were quantified and categorized; the potential situations corresponding to each form of communication by the children were transcribed and identified, as well as the teacher s form of communication and, in the end, turn takings were counted. The second study consisted of the analysis of the same teacher s perception about the communication and attention strategies she developed while caring for S1 and S2, as described in the first study. For this purpose, an individual, semi-structured interview was conducted, composed by three questions, made after the teacher watched the recorded material of her actions. This interview was transcribed and analyzed using content analysis. Results: on the first study, regarding the number of attention behavior occurrences, S1 had attention to people and S2 attention to the object, during activities involving music and rhythm. As potential forms of non-verbal communication, S1 showed vocalizations, touching, body contact, body movements, facial expressions and crying, while S2 showed looking, body movements and vocalization. The teacher s communication forms were verbal, touching (contact and vibration), visual, auditory (rhythm) and Brazilian Sign Language signs. S1 and S2 had potential turn takings only when the teacher began the action, possibly due to difficulties in initiating, maintaining or extending interaction. On the second study, regarding the teacher s perception, she showed satisfaction with her work in realizing the student s development, respect for the individual characteristics in the use of strategies, importance of family involvement and using audio-visual records as a contribution to her work. However, she mentioned certain situations where she lost communication opportunities and did not provide enough time for the students to answer. Final remarks: the importance of a significant communication partner is essential in order to identify, interpret and respond to the child s behavior of attention and communication. The use of other communication forms should happen according to individual characteristics, since activities that will stimulate touch, sight, hearing and other senses should be offered, as a communication form, as part of the process of development stimulation. This should happen so that the child can receive, whenever possible, information about the environment and ensuring access to the world. Still, little is known about these children s learning skills and about attention and communication behaviors. Thus, it is imperative for both the teacher and Speech-Language Pathologist, to know each child s characteristics and to understand how they communicate