Speech Therapy Group Focused on Written Language

A Dialogical Perspective

Abstract

In this paper I present a part of a research in which I propose a therapy based on Bakthin's theory about speech genres. My objective was to analyze the contribution of this theory to clinical speech therapy field. In order to perform my proposal, I have developed a case study in a group formed by five subjects who had complaints about their reading and writing skills. I have selected the following genres in our work: novel, play, synopsis and publicity poster. Because of the size of this paper, here I will present just the interlocution with the subjects of the group during the process of writing the play. The results suggest that practices based on a discursive perspective were effective because the group – immersed in meaningful contexts of language use – developed linguistic and discursive competences necessary in reading and writing.