Implications of a diagnosis: what the families of disabled subjects feel?

Abstract

This study aims to highlight and discuss the feelings, personal impressions and characteristics attributed by the family about having a disabled child. In the case of this study, all presented significant language changes underlying the diagnosis of autism or cerebral palsy.Methodologically, it was characterized as a kind of qualitative study of cases, with numerical description of categories. 10 subjects were surveyed. All families were submitted to initial interviews, which were transcribed and analyzed, resulting in a corpus of 20 reports.As a result, the regularities present in the family discourses about the diagnosis of the disability are pointed, subsequently organized into 10 categories: negative view (rejection, shock, sadness, aggressiveness, prejudice, dependence, different, difficulty and overprotection) and positive view (the potentialities).Through this study, it was possible to contribute to a better understanding of the implications arising from the birth of these children in the family core, as well as to construct a material that gives subsidy and means to professionals who seek to support such suffering in speech therapy clinic and work with these families, facing their anxieties and expectations, giving them the possibility of establishing a new vision about the disabled child..