CHILDREN WITH AUTISM WHO HAVE COMPLEX COMMUNICATION NEEDS: TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS FROM THE FOCUS GROUP
Autism. teaching. Communication.
This study aims to expand knowledge about Inclusive Education and Assistive Technology, in the context of children served in the Municipal Network of the Municipal Department of Education. In this sense, it seeks to continue improving and investing in teacher training, contributing to the inclusive school process. The main objective is to understand how to work directly with children with ASD who have a complex need for communication, considering that they are, above all, subjects who feel, think, have desires and desires, communicate, develop even if do not communicate in the “conventional” way of your group. The methodology is a qualitative research through an exploratory study of the perceptions of teachers participating in a focus group. Thus, it is expected to contribute to the potentiation of communicative interaction between students who are in TEA and their teachers, in order to alleviate conflicting practices due to the absence of communication.