A multimodalidade em aquisição de linguagem na trissomia do cromossomo 21

Abstract

Trisomy 21 (T-21) is a genetic condition that promotes a particular characteristic in the language acquisi-tion process, requiring a longer chronological time to acquire structural aspects, but with communicative potential for the forms of language manifestations that involve gestures, the look, facial and body expres-sions, prosody and vocal productions, constituting the multimodality, which act together offering possi-bilities of meanings in natural situations of interaction. Objective: to investigate, bibliographically, the use of multimodality in the language stimulation of babies with Trisomy 21. Methodology: for this qualitative research of bibliographic review, surveys of published articles were carried out, covering the period from 2007 to 2021, in the databases of Google Academic, Portal de Periódicos CAPES and Scielo. After this survey and reading of the texts, 16 articles were selected to make up the corpus of this study. Results: the were presented in the form of a table and in the discussion the analysis of these data was performed. Con-clusion: multimodality should be accepted and validated in speech therapy as a way to favor the language acquisition processo of people with T-21 from the first months of life.