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The Potentialities of the Expressive and Gestual Language



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Giuliana De Rosa, Caterina Francone, Guglielmo De Rosa and Patrizia Bruno

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DOI:10.17265/2328-7136/2016.03.008

The aim of this work is to integrate the Educative intervention to Scientific research in support of the biological, psychological, social and economic discomfort of the Person affected by cognitive deficit. The specific objective is to stimulate the retained cognitive, emotive and motor abilities, educating to the theatricality through the establishment of a theatrical laboratory. Our experience was conducted with a group of elderly people affected by neuro-geriatric pathologies with medium-high cognitive decay. The encounters took place in the home of one of the members of the group. Fundamental was the actualisation of the process of individual and collective empowerment. They started with social activities and viewings of film scenes with Charlie Chaplin, actor to be observed, picked by the activities’ participants. Finally, there was a re-enacting of a “wordless” scene through the reading of simple sentences to express in sign language. The parameters taken into consideration during the qualitative analysis are: attention, learning, expressivity and motor capabilities, measured at every encounter through a Likert scale of evaluation created ad hoc, directly proportional to the level of adequacy of the single ability. In conclusion, the maximum of scored points manifested itself in the attention and expressivity items.

Cognitive discomfort, communicability, theatre, emotions, mnemonic stimuli, empowerment