Mídias digitais como recurso de acessibilidade para estudantes com autismo nas aulas de Educação Física

Abstract

Physical Education is a mandatory curricular component of the elementary education system. Its pedagogical actions are always experiences full of corporeality that focuses on feelings and interactions. The increasing attendance of students with disabilities in regular schools, specifically those with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), creates the need to get to know these individuals, whose development is different from the standards of pupils found in mainstream schools. From this knowledge, we can review the practices, propose changes, adaptations so that these students feel they belong to the school routine. Therefore, the requirement to research new ways to assist the inclusion process within Physical Education, aiming for the improvement of the participation of these students in class. Thus, this study aimed to propose production, use, and verification of the possibility of Using digital media (videos in animation format) to assist in the inclusion of a student with ASD in Physical Education classes.The research field was the Fernando Rodrigues da Silveira Application Institute (CAp – UERJ). The subjects involved in the research were a student diagnosed with ASD enrolled in the first year of elementary school and her Physical Education teacher. The research proposal was a qualitative/quantitative study and used as a methodological framework the collaborative action research. It is a theme, according to previous research, not yet addressed in academia and, as a result, it can contribute in some way to the process of inclusion of students with ASD in Physical Education classes.