Sonia Lopes Victor

A criança com autismo na brinquedoteca: percursos de interação e linguagem

This paper aims at presenting the results of the study case analyses about interaction modes established between a child with autism and adults in a playroom. It supported by the studies of Lev Semenovitch Vygotsky and Mikhail Bakhtin, who discuss the role of the language in the conscience constitution and emphasize the significance processes that underlie the interactive processes. The field research was carried out inside a university playroom that assisted disabled and non-disabled children once a week, for four months. To do so, it counted with the participation of Physical Education Course graduates, university students and a Psychologist. Data was registered through shootings, audio recordings and field diary records. Taking the study goal into consideration, it was focused on the interactive processes established between a two-year and eight months old autistic boy who does not present an articulated language, and two Researchers. The analyses indicated that the child interacts with adults, using non-verbal resources, subtle at times, and occurring at a short period of time, which are meant by them, allowing keeping the interaction and enriching the interlocution possibilities. The work concludes that, even without an articulated speech, that child is constituted as a subject who is able to be positioned in an active and responsive way in the interactive processes established with the Researchers. In this process, the adult role is fundamental in order to create favorable conditions to the child participation in the dialogic game.

A criança surda: a infância na constituição de um espaço pedagógico que se ocupe da diferença

This text aims to discuss childhood and deafness as inventions of our time which creates in children the survivor condition. The main objective of this paper allowed us to think about a pedagogical space (according to Masschelein and Simons, 2014), which engages in the deaf difference within early childhood education. Based on life stories of two deaf children and their representations in the educational space, one can realize that their life conditions are conducted and intrinsically linked to how they are made and designed according to the law and to the documents of the deaf community as well. The obsession with childrens body deaf subject is based on the idea of normalization allocated to these subjects since it is considered that early education is critical to driving any possibility of their subjectivities: both deaf subjectivity and the listener subjectivity. And from these reflections, this paper assumes that perceive the child as a survivor of these borders, enables us to build pedagogical space in order to take into account the materiality that constitutes this subject from its triple power (movement, speech and thought) and capacity of its exhibition.