Speech therapy practices with language in the educational context
RIAEE – Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação, Araraquara, v. 18, n. 00, e023079, 2023. e-ISSN: 1982-5587
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21723/riaee.v18iesp.1.18478 12
I went deeper into the subject of language disorders, speech disorders, reading
and writing disorders, the issue of dyslexia, I also gave lectures on these
subjects. (F1, our translation).
In some of the lectures, one of the main subjects was about the development
of children's language, so what was expected for children in their age group,
what is expected for children according to the disorder they present, so we
reported all of this in the lectures. I chose a specific theme, mainly early
childhood education and the lectures on language were worked on a lot, so
much so that the teachers were super curious about it because it was very new,
although many are pedagogues, but sometimes they don't have a different look
than a speech therapist has for these questions, such as phonological
exchanges, the child's phonological framework. (F5, our translation).
It is noteworthy that in the reports of most interviewees, the theme was proposed by the
speech therapist, in a unidirectional way, extracted from the teachers' complaints about the
students and the screenings. Only F3 demonstrated to build a different practice. The themes of
the activities emerged from the relationship built with the school community and were agreed
in a more symmetrical way. Here is an excerpt from the interview in which F3 mentions the
construction of this relationship and the proposed work:
Initially, when the secretariat releases us to access the schools, we go there,
meet the management, the school team, present the work and get to know the
reality of that school. Knowing who composes it, the number of students, what
is the profile of the community it is inserted in, knowing the relationship
between parents and the school, and even between the school and the students
themselves. [...] So, I have been working a lot with support for teachers. So, I
sit down and we go to study with them, so, how is the writing acquisition
process? The process of speech acquisition and reading? (F3, our translation).
[...] So one week we were there working on what is proper and what is not in
the written acquisition process, then other things came up. Ah, the students
really have some question that they don't like, let's think about other writing
practices next time, then next time I worked on literacy, then I discussed
something else, there was always something to discuss [...] (F3, our
translation).
In the report above, it is possible to observe that the proposed activity (studying together,
for example) arises from the relationship built with the school. It is observed that in the work
of “support for teachers”, the main theme is the language acquisition process (spoken or written)
and not the pathology, the disorder. F3 talks about his work with the acquisition of writing, the
importance of thinking along with teachers about “other writing practices” and discussing, for
example, the topic of literacy. The study carried out by Berberian et al. (2013), with the aim of
analyzing the knowledge of a group of public elementary school teachers about writing
concepts and about the concept of literacy, pointed to the importance of speech therapists