Motor Stereotypies and language: multimodal aspects of negation in autism

Abstract:

Motor stereotypies may represent an indication of the constitution of language by a subject diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. We understand the autist as a subject constructed in / through language, and this as a multimodal operation. We begin with the case study of an autistic child participant in a Study Group and Autistic Spectrum Care - GEAUT/UNICAP to discuss the place of an autist within language, considering the negation movements that present different multimodal settings of 'not' in autism. In the collected data, we found that motor stereotypies and vocalizations with a sense of negation represent multimodal enunciative resources of autistic subjects within language.

Keywords:
autism; motor stereotypies; multimodality.