| dc.description.abstract | The year 2020 started with many challenges. In March, emergency measures were
installed due to the COVID-19 pandemic decreed by the World Health Organization
(WHO) and, with that, the whole world had to adapt to the new reality, such as the case
of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The Federal Council of Speech
Therapy has issued notes and guidelines for conducting telephonoaudiology. In view of
this, the scenario of social isolation, caused by the pandemic, promoted changes in
routine activities that started to be adapted to the remote format (online). In this sense,
the overall objective of this dissertation was to investigate the pragmatic language skills
of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in therapeutic interaction online,
following the specific objectives: analyze the pragmatic resources used in the statements
of autistic subjects in digital context; describe the pragmatic functioning of language in
a framework of functional communication between autistic child and his interlocutor
through digital platform, as well as identify in the pragmatic language area unique
enunciative modes of language functioning in autistic subjects. For this, we opted, as a
method, for qualitative research of the case study type in a descriptive way, relating
enunciative scenes of autism and telecare in speech therapy. We used as theoretical
foundation the works of Barros (2006, 2011, 2016), Benveniste (2020), Kanner (1945),
Farrell (2008), Flores (2010), Fernandes (1996), Barros and Fonte (2016, 2020), among
others. The conclusion demonstrated that the use of telephonoaudiology in the period of
the COVID-19 pandemic did not interfere with the dynamics and advances of clinical
speech therapy care. Interaction between subjects, intention and communicative
knowledge of the children participating in the study were perceived, as well as the
presence of several pragmatic skills found in enunciative scenes of remote therapy. This
fact allows us to think of other therapeutic strategies for language construction using the
digital medium as a vehicle for the promotion and signification of enunciates, as long as
the interlocutor accepts the autistic child as a subject of possibilities, allowing a place in
language. | eng |
