Abstract

PAIVA, Maria Aparecida Ferreira de  and  SANTOS, Andréa Rizzo dos. USE OF MOBILE ALPHABET ORGANIZED BY CHILDREN WITH ASD: perceptions of professionals. Revista Teias [online]. 2023, vol.24, n.72, pp.181-196.  Epub Aug 03, 2023. ISSN 1982-0305.  https://doi.org/10.12957/teias.2023.63168.

This article addresses the perceptions of professionals involved in the schooling of children with autism spectrum disorder in transition from kindergarten to elementary school and their construction of written language from the usability of the Organized Mobile Alphabet in workshops about the alphabetical functioning of the writing system. This was a participatory research with a descriptive nature with a qualitative approach, carried out in a municipal nursery school for children's education in a small municipality in the center-west of São Paulo and approved by the Ethics Committee in Research involving human beings. Three common school teachers, a special education teacher, two child development Assistants and fifty children enrolled in three Stage II classes, aged between four years and six months and five years and eleven months, participated in the study, of them were diagnosed with ASD. Questionnaires, filming records, photographs and a field diary were used as instruments for data collection. The results revealed, through the perception of professionals, that the use of the OMA allowed the four children with ASD to show their knowledge; presented itself as an enriching pedagogical material for schooling, by exploring the peculiarities of the disorder and maximizing them in favor of effective learning. It was concluded that the OMA had an important role in the inclusion of these children, favoring their sense of belonging in the common educational context.

Keywords : special education; autism spectrum disorder; inclusion.

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