Blow Maze for Speech Theraphy Team: Bruna Saddy brunasaddy@gmail.com Marina Sirito ma.svc@hotmail.com Social Group: Isabela Heluy Reviva: Centro de tratamento de anomalias crânio faciais do Rio de Janeiro Rua Padre Leonel França, 248, Gávea, Rio de Janeiro CEP: 22451-000 We have made our project in Reviva, Center of treatment of skull and facial anomalies of Rio de Janeiro, with Isabela Heluy, speech therapist, as our partner. Reviva offer free treatments of several specialties as nutrition, speech therapy, surgery, psychology and many others for their patients. Isabela works with her patients so they can achieve better communication skills, specially those who speaks using their noses. Isabela works with then a better breath and also to increase their self steam and self trust. During the process, we observed Isabela’s activities, such as, exercises phrases and word repetition, singing and blowing. Based on Isabela’s vocabulary universe, we recognized as theme of the project the phrase: “The speech therapeutic work with the persons that have skull and facial anomalies is based on the visual and auditive perception, in order to direct the speech sound to the oral cavity.” We recognize that, many of her activities, are related with the phrase. When can see that when she asks the patient to repeat word and syllables using the auditive perception to try to copy the sound of the speech and the visual perception to try to imitate the movement of the mouth, until he can pronounce it correctly, directing the sound through his mouth. After several experiments to conceive how we do a material object that could represent the objective phrase, we concluded that one maze where the patient could blow, through a straw, one little ball and where are images “mixed” with the tray walls, in order to stimulate the patient’s reasoning would be ideal. That maze was made of PET, cutted, sanded and glued by our very hands. The cards, that can be placed between the maze’s walls, presents images, words and syllables were made of 18og Canson paper involved with Contact, also cutted and designed by us. Three little wooden balls and a wooden spinning machine were made. The straws used by the patients are made of plastic, so that it can be washed or recycled after the use. Our product is being used by Isabela to help her with the treatment.. Bruna Saddy: Making a project is about being open to the others, give them contributions and receive and accept contributions of other’s, is to see that there are more ways to approach a problem that you had guessed, considerations, implications and conclusions that you hadn’t thought and to be amazed by that. It is to ask and to accept, to help and being helped, to listen and to be listened, to respect and to be respected. It’s, also, to have a really serious commitment with values, objectives and deadlines, and also a will to help, to make things a little easier and better. And, finally, it is to have a great desire that that little piece of yourself, that is “inscrusted” in your project, may help a lot of people to learn, to get better e to achieve their objectives too. Marina Sirito: Making a project have generated in me the understanding of the trade between human beings. This trade doesn’t depends on of one’s knowledge, we trade all the time, we just need to be open to it. In other words, to trade is to let the other go in to your thoughts and to think the other. And that it must occur without restriction and intensely. Subject: DSG 1002 Class: 1AH Professores: Ana Branco e Vicente
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