SUPPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION IN THE PHYSIOTHERAPY SESSIONS A comunicação suplementar e/ou alternativa na sessão de fisioterapia

technology1. This technology allows patients with disabilities to have an independent life and social and educational inclusion2. The assistive technology can be used in patients with restriction and/or lack of spoken language. Once this language deficit affects 49 % of children with Non-Progressive Chronic Encephalopathy Evolutionary (NPCE)3, it is necessary alterna-tives which allow this child to express feelings and desires. From this context, the Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) comes in order to insert the child with NPCE in school, and promote some social independence for her/him 4. AAC systems are composed of strategies which complement or replace spoken language