Narrativas e representações sociais sobre a atuação fonoaudiológica na escola

Abstract

The Speech and Language Therapy had your origin in the educational environment, when the speech and language therapists were called rehabilitators and they looked for solutions to solve the language problems of the educationalists inside the school. Nowadays, it was detected some problems in this interlocution witch carry to a difficult in this activity. In this context, the aim of this research was to study representations which are in the base of the teacher and therapist s discussions about the actuation of this last one, in the school, in order to reach a better comprehension between these professionals and contribute to the consolidation this professional identity. Through what was obtained by a middle structures interview, with eight participants, we looked for analyze the results founded into two views: a dialogic one, suggest by Bakhtin, which considers the interaction fundamental to the language, and the other, which also brings the Moscovici ideas, about the social representations conformed by the communicative action influences in the society and which can be expressed through the common sense. What we found in this research make us think the Speech and Language Therapy, as we know in Recife, it is not clear about the aims of the actuation inside the school. The Therapists interviewed still have an actuation representation bonded to the beginning of the history of this job, toward to the student s difficulties, a reductionism view which could be emerged in these therapist s formations who don t understand the healthy promotion as a most effective way to actuate in this reality. In the teacher s view, about this theme, in spite of realize the bond to detection and treatment of pathologies, could emphasize this professional actuating in an inclusive view and to a student and teacher s Speech and Language Therapy prevention. In the end of this research we observed that, if the study investments in this area, continue not enough, if changes doesn t happen in the university conceptions in relation to the action of this job in the school and, specially, if the few who actuate in educational institutions continue with this reductionism view about what to do, we will lose one more field actuation inside of the Speech and language Therapy, in the same way that the education will lose professionals who can help to generate big changes in the teach