Considerações sobre a escuta na clínica de linguagem

In the field of speech pathology and therapy, perception-based models are central, both as explanatory tools for pathological speech conditions and as the basis to the development and implementation of therapeutic procedures. Such approach is submitted to critical discussion and an alternative perspective is put forward. The first step towards the alternative approach proposed involves a discussion on the nature of linguistic materiality and the drawing of a distinction between hearing (an organic ability) and listening (involving the unique relationship between speaker and language). In order to explore this subject I discuss the ways Linguistics and Psychoanalysis can provide the field of speech therapy with a theoretical framework which allows for a new perspective on the relationship speaker-language. This discussion is conducted in accordance with the reflections on child language developed by Cláudia Lemos