Language therapy and autism spectrum disorders: a learning workshop experience / Fonoaudiologia nos distúrbios do espectro autístico: uma experiência de oficina de formação de terapeutas

AUTOR(ES)

Kenya Ayo-kianga da Silva Faustino

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

Language disorders are one of the central elements of autism spectrum disorders. The work as practice supervisor with last year under graduation students of Speech, Language and Hearing Pathology has shown that frequently the transposition from theoretical knowledge to clinical practice is not easily done. Purpose: To propose an open intervention program for teaching and learning based on the specific literature and on the clinical practice; apply the program with a group of last years students and verify its results through a clinical reasoning assessment. Method: Subjects were 16 students/therapists with no previous experience in working with autistic children divided in two groups: Research Group (7 students that participated in the learning workshop plus an eight-month period of supervised practice) and Control Group (9 students that participated only in the eight-month period of supervised practice). Procedures: literature review of the driving principles of pragmatic based language therapy for children of the autism spectrum and interviews with professionals with at least three years of experience with this population; proposal of an intervention pedagogical program; conduction of the learning workshops with RG; clinical reasoning assessment to verify the differences in performances by the groups. Results: the learning workshop is a structured program that is flexible enough to allow each student to build his/her own learning process. The students of RG had performed better in the clinical reasoning assessment then the ones from CG. Conclusion: The Learning Workshop Program has shown to be efficient.

ASSUNTO(S)

autismo learning education evaluation of results of therapeutic interventions teaching educação em saúde ensino health education speech and language hearing sciences/education fonoaudiologia/educação autism language therapy transtorno autístico terapia de linguagem aprendizagem avaliação de resultado de intervenções terapêuticas autistic disorder

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