The body brings the world into the brain and the brain drives the body into the world. The basics for improving communicative competence in children with communication difficulties
Maria Luisa Gava, Lia Mastrogiacomo, Olivia Ninotti, Elisabetta Roca
This paper talks about an integrated rehabilitation programme based on speech therapy and the c.m.i.® approach. (M.L. Gava, Individualized Motivational Cognitive Approach). The clinical case is an 8-year-old child with a neuro-cognitive pathology resulting in communicative-linguistic deficiencies. The paper will highlight how a programme of orientation to the dimensions of the real world (space, time, relationships and objects) can help the child to stabilise knowledge, through reference points. It follows that the linguistic component (input and output) benefits from this type of approach: the ability to manipulate own experience (through movable graphical drawn elements) allows the child to better analyse the various contexts, encouraging his desire to engage in the phenomenal experience of language.
Keywords
Reference points or starting points, Procedures, Graphic trace, Acting on graphical representations, Motivation.