Comunicação Alternativa e Ampliada: Um recurso para favorecer o desempenho ocupacional de jovens com Transtorno do Espectro Autista

Abstract

The social inclusion of young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a subject rarely discussed in research, but of great importance to these individuals, the family and the professionals who are involved in their activities, they can find access doors to help them continue to grow in skills now more than ever, geared to what is essential to their life in society, as has the Natural Functional Curriculum (CFN). The Alternative Communication and Enlarged has broad field of research for supplementation of language, but still few studies aimed at adulthood, and also associated with its value in receptive language to build bridges with functional activities and organize behavior and facilitate better forms of expression. Individuals with autism, to reach adulthood, and carry the socials communications features that "turn off" the world can still languishing from the effects of addiction that carry from childhood, when it was cut to protect it. Given this context, this study aimed to verify whether the use of visual aids associated with Alternative Communication and Enlarged (CAA) can facilitate occupational performance of young people with ASD, attending a multidisciplinary clinic in the north of Rio de Janeiro. Participated in the study, two young people with ASD (Participants Students); four teachers of the clinic (Participants instructors) who have no technical background, but deal with students in their self-care activities; and four family (two sets of parents, identified as family teams). To meet the proposed objectives, the study involved a quasi-experimental design type A-B, with baseline and intervention in the clinic and in the homes of participating students to check the generalization. The results showed that the objectives were achieved, from the evolution of the occupational performance of the young, and even improvement in communicative events during the execution of ADLs chosen for each. In addition, the study generated a creation of scores for performance evaluation in stages, in addition to ways to observe the degree of independence for a particular function, the classification of the level of performance that here proved how good way to view panoramas achieved by subject students participating in the survey