Speech therapy plan guided by Bakhtin’s speech genres theory: theoreticalmethodological aspects

Abstract

The notion of discourse genres has been outstanding in Brazil since the 1990s when it was proposed the re-meaning in the ways of teaching and learning by means of the Curricular Parameters of the Portuguese Language. Strategies for the development of competencies in reading and writing started being thought over through the language in use, the language of oral and written genres which mediate human interactions. Although the theory of genres was adapted for the educational field, it can be extended to the therapeutic field since the context specificities are respected. If in school settings, the expression “teaching proposal” is used, in the clinical scope, a “speech language therapeutic plan” for students with complaints of reading and writing difficulties. This study aims to present the theoretical-methodological aspects involved in the elaboration of a therapeutic plan grounded in Bakhtin’s theory of discourse genres. The exposition of the theoretical-methodological approach is divided in two sections: in the first one, the theoretical background is addressed, followed by the methodological aspects in order to implement the aforementioned speech language therapeutic plan.