ABSTRACT
After the outbreak related to the Zika virus (ZIKV) in Brazil, between the years 2015 and 2016, pregnant women who had been infected had babies with important neurological sequelae. At the time, several cases of microcephaly associated with other neurological disorders were reported. This episode was configured as a worldwide public health emergency and different studies were (and have been) carried out to monitor babies who had been exposed to congenital ZIKV infection. These children have specific neurological disorders, which are described in the literature as microcephaly, craniofacial disproportions, spasticity, seizures, irritability, arthrogryposis, brainstem dysfunctions - dysphagia and eye abnormalities -, hearing disorders, brain calcifications, cortical disorders, and ventriculomegaly. (ARAÚJO, et. al., 2016; FRANCE, et. al., 2016; MIRANDA, et. al., 2016; MOORE, et. al., 2017) Given the small number of studies dedicated to language in this scenario, the objective of the research is to reflect on language and body dimension in children with neurological injuries associated with Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS). The discussion took as a reference the moment when these children begin to attend school. Thus, based on the methodological approach of the case study and participant observation, filming of dialogic situations, which occurred in the school environment, was filmed between a child diagnosed with CZS and his colleagues, teachers, the Child Development Assistant, and a researcher. As a result, we evidenced the presence of a body that, even submitted to the limitations imposed by the organic injury, was present in the dialogue asking for interpretation. The participant observation technique allowed this presence to be recognized in the school space, which shows us how the interprofessional meeting can produce displacements that lead an education professional to occupy a position that allows conditions for changes to be operated in the relationship of the child with language and with the group.
Keywords:
language; body; Zika; interprofessional; speech therapy