Comunicação alternativa e ampliada (CAA) na perspectiva da educação inclusiva de deficientes intelectuais: uma abordagem da teoria histórico cultural (THC)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) from the perspective of an approach Inclusive Historical-Cultural Theory (HCT). The article highlights the Alternative Communication and Extended, used as a means of educational and social inclusion of disabled mainly intellectual disabilities. It is used in this article, the theoretical framework of Vygotsky (1984). The THC, supported by the Russian scholar and his colleagues, is based on the general law of cultural development, on two levels: first, interpersonal and intrapersonal later. However, the author ensures that only through the loaded social relationships of meanings, the development of superior arises cultural or psychological functions mediated by other by means of language, sign par excellence. This is the essence of cultural development is the ownership and in the field of social. This article emphasizes the concept of Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) as the focus of the AAC study. Research is only literature and the theoretical framework covers three topics: 1- The Alternative Communication and Extended Disabled Intellectuals; 2- School inclusion / special needs / handicapped intellectual 3- The social interactionism Theory of Cultural History of Vygotsky and the CAA (Alternative Communication and Extended).