ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AS SUBJECTS READERS AND WRITERS:

SENSE AND MEANINGS

Abstract

A significant number of adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) who are at a disadvantage with respect to the acquisition of written language. In order to contribute to the scientific literature on literacy and literacy of adults with intellectual disabilities, this study aimed to analyze the meanings that these adults attach to literacy and literacy. The theoretical and methodological framework, the study was based on cultural historical assumptions. We chose the qualitative research study of multiple case types and the instruments used were documental analysis, semi-structured interviews and application of an evaluation protocol for reading and writing. The study included the participation of five adults with intellectual disabilities aged 36-46 years, which had already participated in a survey of reading and writing intervention. Data analysis was performed by lifting organized meaning core as follows: sense and meaning given to reading and writing; cultural goods and materials related to the development of intellectual and social poor place reader / writer occupied by the research subjects. The data revealed that subjects know written materials which permeate through different semiotic technical tools - notebooks, books, newspapers, cell phones, computers - but not all access these materials in the same way. In general aspects, we found that some advanced aspects relating to written language and some do not, and the meanings attributed to reading and writing, correlate with the concept of literacy, which gives the stabilized resulting meaning of pedagogical practices of reading and written without correlation with the social context.