Abstract
ABSTRACT This study aims to discuss how Speech-language therapy based on a dialogical perspective can facilitate the language appropriation process of a child, victim of social deprivation.In this longitudinal case study, the collected data, from February to November 2016, were analyzed from therapy sessions conducted at a Speech-Language Clinic located in Southern Brazil. The child was a 5-year old girl, victim of social deprivation in her early childhood. For the language therapeutic and evaluation process, the therapist used contextualized language-based activities, several social functions, such as house playing and dolls. During the evaluation process, it was noted that the child did not show intention to initiate or respond to taking turns, did not maintain visual contact and used incomplete and generally unintelligible statements. Throughout the therapeutic process, it was seen that this child began to participate more effectively in the dialogues, replicating the statements of others, positioning herself in relation to the other, perceiving herself as a dialogical subject and initiating the interactive process. Through the dialogical interactions that occurred in this period, it is considered that there was an expansion of her discursive interactions, allowing a better organization of her speech and the role she plays in each social interaction.
Highlights
According to the Bahtinian perspective, adopted in this study[1], the constitution of a subject’s singularity occurs by encountering the other in a steady exchange between the inner and outer world, which takes place throughout one’s life by means of the language[1]
The objective of this study was proposed, that is, to discuss how speech-language therapy may lead to the process of language appropriation by a socially deprived child
Some results are presented, which were organized in 5 dialogues with speeches between the therapist and the patient, collected during the therapeutic process
Summary
According to the Bahtinian perspective, adopted in this study[1], the constitution of a subject’s singularity occurs by encountering the other in a steady exchange between the inner and outer world, which takes place throughout one’s life by means of the language[1] Such exchanges occur in the family environment, with those who play the parental role. In the dialogical perspective of language[3], it is considered an open system, essential for the establishment of the discursive activity, being the social product of the language It is by means of the language that dialogue is effected between at least two people within the same society/community, otherwise there would not be dialogical exchanges[4]. Such a perspective considers subjects’ background and their social relations with their surroundings, by means of the interplay with other subjects and their respective social views and voices
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