Abstract
ABSTRACT Purpose: to analyze the effects of clinical listening in the discourse of parents of children with autism about the speech-language-hearing work in the team of a Children and Youth Psychosocial Attention Center (Centro de Atenção Psicossocial Infanto-Juvenil). Methods: a descriptive case study research with nine parents of children with autism. Results: the parents recognize, in the therapeutic experience with the speech-language-hearing therapist, changes in the quality of communication and relationship with their children, becoming more linguistically open and interesting figures to their children, because they understand the communication dynamics and feel ready to develop it. The parents incorporated the idea that it is through a shared playing that their children develop both subjectively and cognitively. They realize that the change and interaction with and between their children, as proposed by the speech-language-hearing therapy, generate care and enlarge the social repertoire of communication. Conclusion: speech-language-hearing therapy was considered as belonging and fundamental to the field of mental health in the work with children with autism, which reinforces the listening offered to the parents by the team.
Highlights
In the perspective of Brazilian mental health policies, the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a condition with very early beginning, so much so that it is included in the category of development disorders
In the parents’ speech, the effects of the clinical listening offered by the team are clearly perceived, especially by the speech-language-hearing therapist, throughout the care processes; such a listening that affected the understanding and the positions of the parents towards their children
This agrees with the presupposition with which the article was introduced: the ways the children are perceived and interpreted by their relatives collaborate, with the systematization, on the part of the health professionals, of theoretical, methodological and procedural knowledges on how to handle the ASD; and, they include the parents in the treatment, potentializing their conditions to personally elaborate on their children’s problems, which can aid in qualifying the relations with their children
Summary
In the perspective of Brazilian mental health policies, the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a condition with very early beginning, so much so that it is included in the category of development disorders. This expression designates a situation of qualitative alterations in social interaction, cognitive processes, behavior, communication and language, starting in the very early childhood. The approximation between speech-languagehearing sciences and mental health will be approached here based on the concepts of “core area” and “field” proposed by Campos[2]; the first refers to “the identity of an area of knowledge and professional practice; and the field, a space with imprecise boundaries where each discipline and profession would seek support in each other to accomplish their theoretical and practical tasks”
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