Autistic communication model from the methodological guidelines of the communication systemic cognitive theory
Abstract
Objectives: To construct a model that explains the autistic communication phenomenon model from the methodological guidelines of the communication systemic cognitive theory. Methods: The work is a mixed approach, sequential transformative design, descriptive level and basic type. Quantitative data (n = 30, Dx. [299,00], [F84,0]) were collected with the Children’s Communication Cheklist-2, research version, an instrument that considers the formal and pragmatic language aspects, such data were skilled and upon them a model was built through a grounded theory qualitative process. First, relating the features at the autism biological and physical level that can explain the obtained data, and then the features at the psychological and metaphysical level that can improve the system overall understanding. Results: In the verbal autistic children don’t exist a strict dichotomy between the difficulties in language formal and pragmatic aspects and it is not possible to determine which linguistic alterations from the autistic communication phenomenon are. The autism genetic and nervous basis is heterogeneous and complex. The genetic variations seem to determine the embryonic and early nervous development, which leads to structural and functional cerebral differences sustained in neurochemical alterations. Conclusions: The model construction has been considerably limited by the quantitative and qualitative data ambiguity. Nevertheless, it is possible to link the results of each stage and suggest that: to a different brain (due to genetic heterogeneity and nervous complexity) it’s corresponded a different cognitive style (result of the perception, memory and particular thought); of which emerge new communication ways. From the look of the neurodiversity, go from being deficits to be functional elements.References
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