Revista CEFAC (Dec 2009)
Habilidade pragmática e Síndrome de Down Pragmatic ability and Down's Syndrome
Abstract
OBJETIVO: investigar as habilidades pragmáticas em sujeitos com Síndrome de Down e sua influência no uso comunicativo. MÉTODOS: avaliação da pragmática (ABFW). Participaram desta pesquisa 10 crianças e adolescentes, de ambos os sexos, com idades entre sete e treze anos. A coleta de dados foi realizada a partir de uma situação de brincadeira livre com um familiar. Os padrões de comportamento foram analisados por meio das funções comunicativas, dos meios de comunicação (vocal, gestual ou verbal) e dos atos comunicativos. Os resultados foram tratados estatisticamente (p PURPOSE: to investigate the pragmatic abilities and their influence on the communicative use in subjects with Down's syndrome. METHODS: the pragmatic assessment (ABFW). The participants were 10 children and adolescents, male and female, from seven to 13-year old. The behavior patterns were analyzed by using the communicative functions, the communication means (vocal, gestural or verbal) and the communicative acts. Data collection was provided from a free play situation with a family member. The Kruskal Wallis test was used for statistic analysis (p < 0.05 Q1 = n/4 Q2 = n/2 Q3 =3n/4 (n = 10) First Quartile, Median, Third Quartile). RESULTS: the median of the communicative acts was 2.88. The comment and narrative functions were the more frequent among the communicative functions and the verbal was the more frequent communicative mean. All the participants used the functions: comment, recognitions of the other and game shared functions. The children and adolescents were responsible for 90% of the direction of the communication. CONCLUSION: the verbal and gestural communication means and the comment and narrative functions were the most used among the participants; mothers were responsible for just 10% of the communication direction and it was carried out predominantly by the children and adolescents that took part in the study.
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