Os benefícios de um modelo de tecnologia assistiva para crianças portadoras de paralisia cerebral - comunicação alternativa

Abstract

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a condition arising from a lesion in the Central Nervous System that can compromise the correct functioning of several systems of the organism, among them, the one connected with the ability to speak, and it is common for its carriers to present impairment in verbal language. In this sense, the objective of this article was to determine what are the benefits of assistive technologies for alternative communication in children with CP. This is a systematic literature review, with a qualitative approach, based on a literary survey in Google Scholar, LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences), PubMed (Medical Publications) and SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online). From the selected studies, it was seen that Augmentative and/or Assistive Communication (AAC), which can be of low or high technology, effectively contribute to the increase of the communicative repertoire of people with CP with speech difficulties, which, in turn, it reflects in several benefits, such as the development of social skills through the inclusion generated by technology, improvement of intellectual development and emotional aspects, allowing the user to express themselves more freely and autonomously with different communicative peers. In this way, it was concluded that AAC generates numerous benefits for non-verbal CP patients, effectively contributing to the quality of life of these individuals.