PURPOSE: characterize and compare the communicative profile of children with disturbances of autistic specter with two different speakers. METHOD: nine subjects took part in the research, among them four children of the masculine gender, between five years old and eight months and eleven years old, with disturbances of the autistic specter and five speech and language therapists. We carried out an analysis of the communicative profile respective to these children with two different speakers (proper child's speech and language and unknown therapist). For the analysis of the information we used the Protocol of Pragmatica and statistical treatment of the results (p < 0.05; Tests of Wilcoxon's Signalized Posts). RESULTS: we raised the number of the communicative acts, the mean through those acts was expressed (vocal, verbal and signal) and also the communicative functions. As a rule, the number of the communicative acts expressed by subjects as with proper child's therapists (5,10 acts/min) as with unknown therapist (4,93 acts/min) was not statistically significant. It was observed in the situation of interaction with proper therapist that the mean value for the percentage of occurrence of verbal communicative mean (31.50%) and the average of more interactive functions (33.25%) are larger than unknown therapist. CONCLUSION: the different speakers, studied in this research, do not have influence on the communicative profile of these children. From that, we suggest new studies, with inclusion of other speakers, in order to settle which interactive variables interfere statistically in the children's communicative profile of the autistic specter intention to contribute to the elaboration of better therapeutic offers for these people.
Autistic Disorder; Interpersonal Relations; Child Language; Intervention Studies
