Competência social e autismo: o papel do contexto da brincadeira com pares

Sem receita: deslocamentos do olhar da Nutrição sobre o comer de crianças autistas

Esta escrita traz reflexões da dissertação Muito além dos nutrientes: a dinâmica alimentar de crianças autistas, que se propôs a (re) pensar a alimentação dessas crianças. Por meio de experimentações com alimentos, oficinas culinárias, passeio à feira livre, festa junina e piquenique, explora alguns deslocamentos do olhar da Nutrição tendo como ingredientes fragmentos fotográficos e escritos de Fernand Deligny, Manoel de Barros e José Miguel Wisnik: a abertura ao imprevisível; o fazer com e estar junto; o desafio de comunicar os resultados da pesquisa para as próprias crianças, usando tirinhas sobre as experimentações; e a proposição do conceito de dinâmica alimentar. Cozinhar e comer juntos permitiram interagir, distanciando-se da concepção restrita de dieta saudável e do nocivo/patológico da comida. Trouxe à tona a complexidade dos processos alimentares, em que o imprevisível – da vida – não desapareceu. Ao contrário, deu sentido ao que aconteceu.

Caregivers' perception of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder regarding to the communicative profile of their children after a communicative orientation program

PURPOSE

To analyze the perception of caregivers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder regarding the functional profile of their children's communication in three moments, before and after the guidelines.

METHODS

Caregivers of 62 children diagnosed with ASD (AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER) participated in this study, divided into three groups of interventions. All interventions included a program with five pre-set monthly orientation sessions to provide information on the development of communication and encourage practical communication activities in daily life. In G1 (group 1), the caregivers received the group orientation program, and the children received individual speech therapy. In G2 (group 2), caregivers received the same program orientations but individually, and their children received different treatment. G3 (group 3), composed of caregivers of children waiting for speech-language pathology on the waiting list, received group guidance. All caregivers answered the Functional Communication Checklist (PFC-C) in three moments: baseline, five and eight months.

RESULTS

In the PFC-C the parents reported an increase in the occurrence of gestural, vocal and verbal means in all groups, to express interpersonal communicative functions, except in G2. In non-interpersonal communicative functions, there was a decrease in the occurrence of the gestural communicative environment, an increase in the verbal climate, with no statistical difference between the groups. As for the vocal climate, there was no difference over time.

CONCLUSION

Communication guidelines for caregivers of children with ASD (AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER) (Autism Spectrum Disorder) contributed to the understanding of the communicative process in different situations, by detecting differences in their perception of the communication functionality of their children.