As inteligências múltiplas na terapia fonoaudiológica de linguagem

Abstract

The strategies and resources used in speech-language therapy are conducted based on previously objectives and in accordance with patients’ language disorders characteristics. These speech-language strategies and resources can be conducted from the different intelligences frameworks that are established during interventions. In this sense, the present thesis investigates a protocol of speech-language therapy based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, in which eight types of intelligences appears as structure of human intellect such as: linguistic, logical-mathematical, kinesthetic-corporal, spatial, musical, naturalistic, interpersonal and intrapersonal. The present work aimed to investigate the access of the multiple intelligences through speech-language therapy in order to develop verbal language (linguistic intelligence). The investigation was followed by a quantitative and qualitative approach. Analysis of content and statistical tests were used to verify the influences of multiple intelligences on the outcomes of the therapies. The sample consisted of 107 patients with language disorders and 62 therapists. Patients were attended at the Speech and Hearing Service of Federal University of Santa Maria. Regarding the characteristics of the patients and the therapists, as well as, the variety of resources and strategies utilized during interventions, it was observed that the discrimination and integration of the eight multiple intelligences in the speech-language therapy has significant implication on levels of linguistic complexity worked and developing communication the patients’.