Pareamento de igualdade como introdução à comunicação alternativa na educação infantil: um estudo de caso no contexto da educação especial

Abstract

This work arises after insertion in a kindergarten unit, in a multi-age group where a five-year-old child is in the process of being included, without a defined clinical diagnosis. Its characteristic is the delay in the development of neuromotor, presenting mainly inefficiency in being able to be understood by the people around him, expressing verbally few words being these of little understanding, approximated of babbling. Realizing their need to communicate with their peers and people around them, the question arises that gave rise to this research as: the acquisition of alternative communication by a child who does not express verbal language and attends early childhood education, the understanding and recognition of everyday school actions? The research had as objective to analyze how the process of acquisition of alternative communication by a child who does not express verbal language and attends to infantile education, enables her to understand and recognize actions of school everyday. The methodology has as proposal a case study having with instruments the field diary and filming of the service. The research is divided in five chapters, being: Methodology, where I bring the adopted procedures, type of research, brief description of the participant; Theoretical reference, which was divided into three subheadings to facilitate the understanding of the researched subject, the subheadings bring the theoretical foundation referring to the researched topic, these were divided into: Historical Context of the Person with Disabilities and Special Education in Brazil, Special Education Attendance, Assistive Technology and Alternative Communication; Data Analysis and Discussion and final considerations. It was not possible to apply the alternative communication in full, however, the work of recognition and identification of teachers was carried out. This recognition is paramount for the proposal with the Alternative Communication to be effective with the images that will be used for the actions requested.