Percepção de gestores escolar sobre a dislexia e a fonoaudiologia educacional

Abstract

Introduction: Dyslexia is a specific learning disorder related to written language, of neurological origin. According to the Brazilian Dyslexia Association, 5% to 17% of the world's population is affected by dyslexia. And it is in school that most cases of dyslexia appear, since it is the environment of literacy, in which the student needs to make relations like phoneme-grapheme, relating the sound to the spelling. Thus, the objective of the present study was to investigate the knowledge of school managers about dyslexia and educational speech pathology. Methods: The study was attended by 18 managers from three public schools in the interior of Sergipe, nine of whom were female and nine were male, who became available to participate in the study through the signing of a free and informed consent form. A semistructured questionnaire was then applied, containing questions on dyslexia and educational speech therapy. Results: Of the 18 participants, 14 (78%) reported knowing about dyslexia, however, (7) 50% presented incomplete responses, and (7) 50% gave incoherent responses. With respect to Educational Speech-Language Pathology, only (4) 22% reported knowing the speech-language pathologist's performance in school. Conclusion: The study made it possible to investigate the lack of knowledge of school managers regarding the themes. In the same way that it verified the need to create mechanisms that aim at the continuous formation of the managers, thus, to facilitate the identification of the learning disorder of reading and writing, aiming at the early intervention, being able to avoid greater losses.