Atendimento educacional especializado em tempos de pandemia: um estudo de caso sobre o acompanhamento de estudantes com TEA em Água Branca – AL

Abstract

Specialized Educational Service is an integral part of a federal government program that is provided for by law, and is primarily made available in the Multifunctional Resource Rooms (MRR) of specialized institutions and in Brazilian basic education schools to support students with special educational needs, among them students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Thus, considering the importance of education for the lives of all citizens, and that there is a growing number of students with ASD in regular schools, we developed this study with the aim of reflecting on the way in which specialized educational care is provided to students with OSD. autism spectrum has become effective at the time of social distancing, caused by the new coronavirus pandemic. Since the classes and face-to-face services were suspended due to the state decree that determines the social distance between people. Therefore, we developed a qualitative research with a teacher from the MRR of a public school in the city of Água Branca-AL, who answered a questionnaire. The answers allowed the elaboration of 5 categories of analysis, namely: 1) The functioning of the MRR; 2) Articulation between the SES teacher and the regular classroom teacher; 3) Family participation; 4) The methodologies used and 5) The difficulties encountered. There are many adversities involving the SES, even more when these are intensified by sudden changes in routines caused by a pandemic. We found that these changes did not prevent the monitoring of students with ASD from being carried out efficiently and with satisfactory results, promoting inclusion.