Suzana Magalhães Maia

Reflexões acerca do papel do fonoaudiólogo junto à família de uma criança com Transtorno Global do Desenvolvimento: estudo de caso

The aim of this study was to reflect about and discuss the role of a speech-language pathologist with the family of a child with Pervasive Development Disorder. This case study reported the case of a child with Pervasive Development Disorder that attended speech-language therapy from July/2002 to November/2004. The excerpts of clinical material depict the course of the patients history, emphasizing the significant moments that generated development of the therapeutical process related to oral communication and social interaction within his familiar setting. Clinical strategies focused a favorable physical and emotional environment, promoting constitutive experiences that respect the singularity of each patient, considering the realities of the family and the community it is part of. Therefore, in our understanding, speech-language therapy can be directed towards the creation of situations that promote the process [of each patient] of daily life inclusion, with the respect that all people deserve.

O fonoaudiólogo e a escola - reflexões acerca da inclusão escolar: estudo de caso

TEMA: refletir acerca do papel do fonoaudiologo na conducao das estrategias terapeuticas para a inclusao escolar durante o atendimento de uma crianca com Transtorno Global do Desenvolvimento. PROCEDIMENTOS: pesquisa de natureza clinico-qualitativa desenvolvida por meio de estudo de caso. O material utilizado foi elaborado a partir de registros em forma de relatorios e abrangem os atendimentos a escola, de julho/2002 a novembro/2004. Os recortes no material obtido retratam o percurso seguido ao longo do eixo da historia do paciente enfatizando os momentos significativos que geraram desenvolvimento do processo terapeutico fonoaudiologico no que se refere a comunicacao oral, integracao social no ambiente escolar. RESULTADOS: o paciente envolvido neste estudo frequenta classe de ensino regular e, a partir dos atendimentos fonoaudiologicos, apresentou desenvolvimento significativo em seu comportamento social no ambiente escolar, alem de efetivo avanco em sua comunicacao oral. CONCLUSAO: considera-se significativo o papel do fonoaudiologo no atendimento a Escola de modo que terapeuta e educador propiciem o respeito a singularidade de cada crianca. Prover condicoes e estrategias para que a Escola se transforme em um ambiente favoravel para o desenvolvimento da crianca com necessidades especiais favorece mudancas na constituicao de suas relacoes interpessoais e abre caminho para que se consolide sua inclusao na comunidade.

Narrativas sobre o início das práticas fonoaudiológicas na cidade de Salvador, Bahia, Brasil

Abstract The introduction of courses in Speech Therapy (ST) in the State of Bahia dates from 1999. Although the courses are recent, the history of this practice in Sal -vador is more distant and in many ways articulates the concerns that have marked the ST. In order to present this history, this article presents narratives of the first speech therapists in the city of Salvador, seeking in their experiences a source for understan -ding the profession’s past and present, as well as its future projections. The gathering of narratives was made using Oral History methodology, that is, the story is told by its own actors. Narrators’ voices frame ST in Salvador as a unique event which is, at the same time, characteristic of how the area has been constituted in Brazil. They distinguish features such as the prevalence of private speech therapy practices as a result of misguided public policies; the recognition by patients as the primary form of publicity for the professionals and local contribu-tion to the institutionalization. Interviewees spoke about the first practices related to the education of deaf and mentally disabled patients, and also about an experience of a holistic clinic, which did not want to prescribe, where people worked together, living the experience of the encounter: a clinic that recog -nized that singularity was organized in each person beyond the record of the lived experience, open to the sentiment, to reciprocity for all human aspiration: to be included, to be taken care of.Keywords: Speech Therapy; History; Personal Nar-ratives; Oral History.