Representations of educational professionals for speech-language and hearing sciences practice in schools

Abstract

The speech-language and hearing sciences practice in schools emerged at the beginning of the 20th century and underwent conceptual and practical changes over time. Currently, efforts are being made to strengthen practices aimed at health promotion and the search for integral care in the school network, reducing perspectives focused on preventive and curative actions. In this way, this work aimed to analyze the representations of professionals of education about the performance of the speech-language and hearing sciences practice in schools. This research was evaluated and approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the institution of origin. It is characterized as qualitative, longitudinal and ethnographic, in which the data collection was carried out from participant observation, interviews and writing in the field diary. After the analysis of the field diaries, it can be observed that the speech-language and hearing sciences practice in schools for the professionals of education is considered to be responsible for the treatment of students with special needs and with learning disorders in the school.