Uso de Comunicação Alternativa e Ampliada e as possibilidades de interação com seus pares: brincar, comunicar, interagir

Abstract

For a lot of children the impossibility of communicating through the oral language becomes an impediment for its effective interaction in the social group which they belong, leaving them to the margin of significant experiences for its development. according to Gumpez (1986), Heat (1989), Luckmann (1990) apud (Capovilla,1993), to become in the linguistic community's member implies that the person dominates the grammatical and pragmatic rules of its community's language. The present study was originated from a Project of Research in Education inserted in the Line of Research of Special Education and had as objectives: to use play activities to promote language development of a cerebral palsied child; to teach this to use a graphic symbol system; to evaluate the child's communicative intentions though the use of the alternative system while playing and interacting with the main investigator; to describe and to analyze the different forms of interaction and communicative function of the AAC user and his normal speaking peers, in accomplishing academic and non-academic school tasks. The study was divided in two stages: the first study was developed in an approach of the naturalistic teaching (Warren and Rogers-Warren, 1985), that demonstrated the effectiveness in the use of the system, change in the communication forms, construction of sentences of an or more words with the solicitation functions, asks and report. In the second study observations were accomplished in the school context where the child meets integrated in literacy class, where it was possible to verify the interaction types accomplished by the child with and without the use of the system of AAC. The study indicates that the use of AAC and the interaction possibility with other children and adult speakers aid the construction of a linguistic structure when assumed in its role of another language.