Contos de fadas: uma ferramenta no processo de aquisição e desenvolvimento da linguagem em crianças cegas

Abstract

It is of fundamental importance to know the process of acquisition and development of language in blind children as that in other children. It is also necessary to use some advisable tolls so as not to impact those children on their way, mainly due to the accumulation of difficulties that interferes in the early stages of their lives. Several stimuli are essential, the most diverse as possible, so that each human being is just like the other, discovering talents and qualities and continually seeking opportunities to exercise the citizenship and nerve feeling different form the others. This research will be submitted with the main purpose of verifying the importance of fairy tales as a facilitator in the process of acquisition and development of language in blind children. The sample will be constituted by blind children who attend public schools in the state of Pernambuco, and are five to six years of age. The stimuli appear in the narrative (or reading) of the fairy tales of the Grimm Brothers. After having completed such activity the uterrance and the communicative exchanges expressed by these children will be observed. Finally the results will be analyzed from a qualitative approach to better match the type of study. The respective investigation may contribute to the science and the social inclusion process, specifically to include school, bringing a more expressive performance of blind children especially with reference to oral communication.