The Down Syndrome baby and its mother: A study about the communication development / O bebà com SÃndrome de Down e sua mÃe: um estudo sobre o desenvolvimento da comunicaÃÃo

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2006

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The present research about the development of the communication system mother-baby in the context of the Down Syndrome. It is based on the perspective of the Dynamic Systems, using the communication analysis model denominated EEA â Establishment â Extension âAbbreviation, proposed by Lyra and his collaborators (LYRA, 1988, 2000; LYRA; CHAVES, 2000; LYRA; ROSSETTI-FERREIRA, 1995; LYRA; SOUZA, 2003; LYRA; WINEGAR, 1997). It is a longitudinal study with two pairs of mother-baby who carries the Down Syndrome, supervised from three months to one year of age of the child through weekly records, in video, of the communication exchanges face to face and mediated by object, in a laboratory situation. The procedure of analysis consisted of the evaluation, second by second (microanalysis) of the records of communication exchange, searching to identify the patterns of organization of communication and their transformations during that period. In regard to the evolution of the system, it was evident that there was a different dynamic than that observed in research with babies that present typical development. A displacement in time stood out as to the passage of predomination between the moments of near stability, above all in what refers to the emergence of abbreviation; a extended period of extension in the face to face exchanges and mediated by the object and a higher instability in the evolution of the system. The model allowed the identification of three characteristics, of relational nature, that marked the evolution of the communication system of the studied pairs: mutual adaptation, maternal directivity versus responsiveness of the baby and the search for autonomy versus maternal attitude. The mutual adaptation prevailed in the major part of the investigated period, demonstrating that in spite of the difficulties inherent to the Syndrome, the partners achieved in building a shared knowledge and from the co-regulated exchanges adapted themselves mutually as early as the first months of the babyâs life. During the development it was verified that the maternal directive functions as a potentializer of the communicative abilities of the baby, damaged by the Syndrome. At the end of the analyzed period, however the babies demonstrated a greater indication of autonomy, leaving the mother to give the necessary support to the child, allowing the system to develop forwarding towards higher levels of complexity. From the microanalytic analysis, it was possible to understand the singularity of the paths taken by the pairs in the process of self organization of the communication system. The model used showed to be promising regarding the development of the communication in babies with deficiency that permits to withhold not only generalized aspects of the system (development patterns of moments of near stability) but also in the particularities of the joint construction of a relational history, thus, supplying subsidiaries for the development of strategies of intervention in that context

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mother â baby interactions development process sistemas dinÃmicos comunicaÃÃo dynamic systems processo de desenvolvimento psicologia cognitiva interaÃÃes mÃe-bebà down syndrome sÃndrome de down communication

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