Abstract

FREITAS, Djalma Francisco Costa Lisboa de. A Discussion on Person-Culture Relationships in Therapeutic-Educational Processes in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.1, pp.1-13. ISSN 2359-0769.  https://doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v20i1.e9347.

This paper discusses the place of therapeutic-educational processes with people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ASD is described as a developmental disorder that affects a person's social interaction, communication, behaviors, and sensory processing. The reflections present in this work start from the discussion of how the theoretical-methodological constructs from the evolutionist perspective and the semiotic-cultural constructivist perspective in psychology can contribute to the understanding about the development of the person diagnosed with ASD, as well as about the positioning of ethical responsibility in the educational therapeutic processes with these people. It is noteworthy that, when talking about understanding and therapeutic-educational intervention on the development of people diagnosed with ASD, processes linked to phylogenetic, ontogenetic and sociogenetic levels of selection/variation of personal and collective ways of functioning in the person-culture relationship are involved. It is concluded that semiotic-cultural mechanisms - such as health and education - assume their position as regulatory and ethical responsibility movements on people diagnosed with ASD..

Keywords : semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology; cultural interaction; autism spectrum disorder; therapeutic-educational processes.

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