PURPOSE: to report on speech therapy performance in a precocious bilingualism case. METHODS: report of a male patient case, bilingual since his childhood. Referred to a speech therapy attendance, with the age of two years and four months, with a familiar complaint about his non-verbally communication. Description through assessment data and speech language therapy for three months. RESULTS: the speech language therapy assessment, based on informal observation, found out some elementary intentional aspects of communication forms, characterizing a simple lateness of language, having the bilingualism as a cause. The therapy adapted and changed itself according to the patient evolutions. The patient gained development related with the use of Portuguese in pragmatic, semantics and lexical aspects, achieving the main purpose of interventions. CONCLUSION: the speech language therapy was efficient, contributing to afford a better quality of communication and speech to the patient, essentially with regards to the use of Portuguese language.
Speech; Multilingualism; Language Development
