Desenvolvimento da comunicação em alunos com espectro autista

Abstract

Communication is essential to an individual's social and educational constitution, enabling them to interact socially and build their identity. Considering that autism is characterized by difficulties in communication, behavior and social interaction, it can be inferred that the educational inclusion of autistic students is highly complex. In view of this, this research sought to investigate the strategies and resources that teachers use to communicate with autistic students in mainstream classes, analyzing the possible weaknesses and potentialities of this process. In addition to repetitive movements, their way of obtaining and expressing language compromised their social interactions, conjecturing such observable actions as Autistic Disturbance of Affective Contact. To this end, we opted for a bibliographical study with a qualitative research approach and data collected that was predominantly descriptive. Previous research has shown that there is still a long way to go for the inclusion process to be effective, given the great difficulties encountered by teachers in their teaching practice with autistic