Souriau, Jacques <br/><br/>
Understanding and communicating with those that do not speak 

 -  2014.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Communicating with people with severe disabilities and who are thought to be little able to communicate is a real challenge for the family members and professionals they are in contact with. One of the ways to tackle this problem is to look for semiotic tools that make it possible to understand their expressions, even though they are limited. Good research and practice in this area requires a relevant epistemology (for instance, dialogism and second person perspective) and analytic tools adapted to the description of communicative gestures, deictic phenomena, and projections of thoughts into the body space. Practical examples will help understand how these notions that look quite abstract can help to reach the world of those people who “do not speak,” to understand their expressions, and to meet with them through a dynamic form of communication that can contribute to the building up of their identities.