O "LIA": uma tecnologia assistiva no processo de construção de narrativas para alunos com autismo

Abstract

The inclusion of people with autism has still been a challenge for parents and schools. It is known, however, that it is not an easy task to put this objective into practice in different areas of knowledge, especially in Portuguese language. Assistive technology is increasingly present in educational contexts, used to aid in diverse processes of inclusion, socialization, communication and academic activities, however, there are scarce resources for assistance in textual productions. In this sense, this research aimed the construction of an assistive game to the production of narratives. This is a research of qualitative approach, with an exploratory and descriptive character of the process of elaboration, testing and final evaluation of the game. The methodological course began with a bibliographical survey, which was extended throughout the investigation, allied with elaboration and application of questionnaires, analysis and evaluation of educational games from the perspective of textual production, development of the proposed game and discussion of the data obtained. At the end, it was possible to build a proposal of pedagogical script to help other researches to develop new games for autistics. The research revealed that despite the variety of resources available in the most different mobile platforms, there are few who propose to help texts production. As for the game 's elaboration, being titled Interactive Letters for Autistics (ILA), it enabled different perspectives regarding the use of games in education, besides contributing to the process of developing the ability to construct and interpret narratives. As well as in the communication, as the participants verbalized the created narratives, directly impacting the participants' education and socialization. However, it was observed the need for some adjustments in the software, such as source and larger images, which could be carried out in future researches.