The subjective dimensions of the assessment of individuals with intellectual disabilities

• Autor(a) principal: Anache, Alexandra Ayach
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Almeida, Maria Amélia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Educação Especial (UFSM)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/educacaoespecial/article/view/84810
• topic: Diagnosis; Intellectual disability; Subjectivity; Diagnóstico; Discapacidad Intelectual; Subjetividad; Diagnosi; Disabilità intellettiva; Soggettività; Diagnóstico; Deficiência Intelectual; Subjetividade

This article addresses the assessment of intellectual disability, stressing the path that people with this characteristic experience to find answers to questions relevant to their atypical development. It is intended to identify and analyze the subjective dimensions in the construction of clinical judgment in the diagnostic process of the individual with intellectual disability, considering the recommendations of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (2021). The methodology of this research is inspired by the principles of Qualitative Epistemology. Nine professionals who work in the special education and health service networks of a municipality with more than 500 thousand inhabitants, located in a region of the interior of Brazil, participated in this study. The analysis of the results is based on the cultural-historical perspective. It is concluded that clinical judgments were based on the deficit perspective, although the social dimension was highlighted by the participants, such as the need for dialogue with the relatives of people with disabilities. Despite the changes that have occurred in the conception of intellectual disability, in an effort to add social and cultural limits to the organic ones, as exposed by the AAIDD (2021), the evaluations tangencied these aspects and prioritized the behavioral characteristics of the individuals, reaffirming the metric fetish to ensure the validity of the diagnoses.