Abstract

This paper analyzes, from a community-based approach, a speech, language and hearing sciences therapy experience for the promotion of children’s rights, carried out in a social organization, with the participation of a group of speech, language and hearing sciences therapy undergraduate students at the Universidad de Chile in 2013. In community approaches, all community members build knowledge and take actions to build stronger social relationships and welfare, justice, autonomy and emancipation. The analysis of this experience was conducted by selecting sections from the fieldwork diaries of the team of participating students, based on the principles and dimensions of the paradigm of construction and critical transformation of Maritza Montero (2004). The results were divided into three moments (beginning, transition and reset of the work), which account for the level of complexity of the process and the goals achieved based on the ontological, epistemological, methodological, ethical and political dimensions of the community-based approach. The discussion emphasizes the importance of critical reflection on the foundations and practices of speech, language and hearing sciences therapy in the approach to communication and human development, to contribute to social justice from a community perspective.