Playful mediation in autistic specter: possibility to communication and a interventional way in psychopedagogy

Abstract

This article reports a professional experience with three children with autistic specter. They were pupils in a institution that offers clinical and educational attendance for people with mental disabilities. However, there wasn’t a program to attend special needs of pupils with autistic specter. It was planned to implement a systematic and directive attendance, but the author considerated another need like principal: to develop relationships. So, the author begun psychopedagogic attendances for each child using play resources according individual predilections and interests, trying to get a playful and interactive context. Her main purpose became to promote relations with people and the environment to improvement the perception and the interaction ablility. The author based this work in her professional experience and in theoretical supports from psychology and psychopedagogy. In accordance with resarches, the join attention, the communication and the learning can be developed during interactive and playful situations, in significant contexts and under mediation, when the subject produces affectivity sense about them.