Failures in language acquisition/incorporation: concerns about the relationship between body and language

This paper is due to concerns on the treatment of a child from the perspective of the Language Clinic. The mother brought the child with the request for the differential diagnosis between Speech Apraxia in Childhood and Autistic Spectrum Disorder. On the article, I highlight the contradiction betwee...

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Author: Oliveira, Mariana Trenche de
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2022
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Repository:Estilos da Clínica (Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.usp.br:article/190012
Online Access:https://www.revistas.usp.br/estic/article/view/190012
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:apraxie
trouble du spectre autistique
langage
thérapie des troubles du langage
langage de l’enfant
apraxias
transtorno do espectro autista
linguagem
terapia da linguagem
linguagem infantil
apraxia
transtorno del espectro autista
lenguaje
terapia del lenguaje
lenguaje infantil
autism spectrum disorder
language
language therapy
child language
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Summary:This paper is due to concerns on the treatment of a child from the perspective of the Language Clinic. The mother brought the child with the request for the differential diagnosis between Speech Apraxia in Childhood and Autistic Spectrum Disorder. On the article, I highlight the contradiction between the entification and fixity of these categories and what appears masked under the semblance of diagnostic undecidability. I propose to articulate the child's unusual oral productions with bodily gestures. The language diagnosis, indicative of failures in the language inscription in the body, implied an intervention on the effect of the child's speech on the other, who, adrift, was trapped in the mirroring of the motor gesture and unable to attribute linguistic value to it.