Analysis of academic productions on alternative communication for people with intellectual disabilities

• Autor(a) principal: Evaristo, Fabiana Lacerda
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Campos, Juliane Aparecida de Paula Perez
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Educação Especial (UFSM)
• DOI: 10.5902/1984686X26577
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/educacaoespecial/article/view/26577
• topic: Special education; Bibliography revision; Alternative communication.; Educación especial; Investigación bibliográfica; Comunicación alternativa.; Educação Especial; Pesquisa Bibliográfica; Comunicação Alternativa

There are several people who could be benefited with alternative communication systems, such as people with intellectual disabilities. After an academic online data base research, it was concluded that studies related to alternative communication for people with intellectual disabilities are scarce in comparison to those for other types of people. Thus, the starting point was a bibliography revision. The main purpose of this research was analyzing and describing collected academic publications about alternative communication in national congress proceedings and verifying which of them address intellectual disabilities. To achieve this, it was used data bases from the congress proceedings of the following conferences: Congresso Brasileiro de Educação Especial, Congresso Brasileiro Multidisciplinar de Educação Especial and Congresso Brasileiro de Comunicação Alternativa – ISAAC. These data bases were selected because they address numerically significant Brazilian researches about the special education area and alternative communication. Categorical analysis script was used to data analysis. The studies analyzed contributed to the understanding of a national research scenario within the area of Alternative Communication. The public with intellectual deficiency is scarce in the studies; this fact emphasizes the necessity of the development of new researches about alternative communication for people with intellectual disabilities.