Abstract
ABSTRACT Objective: to know the perception of professionals from a specialized center in habilitation and rehabilitation, regarding the performance of speech therapists working with people presented with visual impairments, in an interdisciplinary team context. Methods: a qualitative research in which the content analysis was chosen, so as to allow data to be presented in analysis categories. Results: 11 professionals participated in the research, including psychologists (2), a speech therapist (1), a physiotherapist (1), an ophthalmologist (1), a computer science teacher (1), a pedagogue specialized in Braille (1), a social worker (1), occupational therapists (2), and an orientation and mobility teacher (1). From the analysis of the data, three thematic categories were developed: A. Speech therapy and the development of functions of the stomatognathic system; B. Interfaces between speech therapy and education in the development of reading and writing skills, in cases of people with visual impairments; C. Speech therapy as a promoter of the development of communicative skills, language, interaction, and interpersonal relationships for people with visual impairments. Conclusion: the research participants considered the speech therapy work as paramount for the rehabilitation of people with visual impairments, and highlighted the fields of activity aimed at developing the functions of the stomatognathic system and working with oral and written language.
Highlights
Vision is responsible for providing most of the information that human beings receive from the environment surrounding them, which allows them to know this environment and interact with it and with other individuals, through verbal or nonverbal languages[1,2]
This study aimed to investigate the perception of professionals from a specialized service in habilitation and rehabilitation regarding the performance of speech therapists working with people with visual impairments in the interdisciplinary team context
We observed that professionals addressed the issue of food introduction as a work developed by speech therapists with people with visual impairments (VI), which influences the development of the stomatognathic functions of sucking, chewing, swallowing, and speaking
Summary
Vision is responsible for providing most of the information that human beings receive from the environment surrounding them, which allows them to know this environment and interact with it and with other individuals, through verbal or nonverbal languages[1,2] In this sense, visual impairments (VI), whether congenital or acquired, cause important impacts, both on the life of affected individuals and their family members. Visual acuity is understood as the quantitative measure of an individual’s vision, which is estimated by people’s ability in identifying letters or numbers on a standardized eye chart from a specific viewing distance. This chart comprises lines with graphic symbols (optotypes) whose dimensions vary along the lines. The concept of visual field can be defined as the area of 180° seen by an observer when facing a certain point[4]
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