Reflexões acerca do atendimento à família na clínica fonoaudiológica

Abstract

Our research had a general aim to reflect about the speech therapists work closed to the relative of children, who has got language disability. Thus, we used a qualitative methodology, which way of collecting data was through a structured interview done by six speech therapists with children affected by language disability in a private clinic. Each interview were analyzed isolated, then the results were divided in six cathegories, which detected all of the contents expressed by the participants: 1-Related to relation between language disability and patients functioning, they observed that language disability is related to subject question from the family as such, mother superprotection, symbiotic relationship between mother and child, weakness father function, abscense from relatives to stay with children day-by-day, anxiety, anguish and familiar stress prejudicing the child inserted in this context. 2-Related to relatives participants in the assessment and therapy of language disabilities, we observed that relatives didn t participate enough in this context. Sometimes mother entrance was requested to walk the session aimed to learn teach the mother about which activities should be done at home beside the children. 3- Related to speech therapists interventions beside the relatives we found two possible conditions: one of them centrated in the intersubjective family system and the other one was extremely pointed in interventions centrated in the obsjectives and direct relatives orientations, focusing on few attention in theirselves subjectivity. 4- Related to feelings experienced, most part of participants mentioned to feel satisfaction to contact with the relatives, exception one of the participants that felt fear and insecurity. 5-Related to difficulties experienced, professionals told about question as such parents resistance to participate, specially envolving themselves in the therapeutic process, as were to stablish some limits between questions to the professional and others liked to a physicological order. 6-Finally, related to the skill from those professional to give family support we found that they haven t got enough preparation, mainly when they recognize their academic limitations. In conclusion, except one participant, the others still follow a model of atendency bared on Cartesian postulates and they didn t contemplate the familiar system complexity