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Cinical-qualitative analysis of the discourse of a child with cerebral palsy

This article proposes a reflection on the establishment of procedural linguistic-discursive production of a child with cerebral palsy in the light of interactive situations. It presents clinic qualitative method as a way of linguistic-discursive investigation and intervention, emphasizing a social verbal interaction and a subjective relationship. The data was longitudinal collected during one year and four months and the linguistic productions of a four-year-old child were analysed in a discursive perspective. Therefore, faraway from measurable evaluations and treatments, which are based in mechanic tasks of words codification and de-codification, our research was based in a group process significant construction analysis. Such analysis allow us to affirm that this child amplify her role in the dialogue. Thus, we observe that in the beginning of the process the child presented a fragmented discourse, and after all she presented complete structured narratives.

Cerebral palsy; discourse; qualitative research


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