Fonoaudiólogo na escola: relato de experiência de uma ação extensionista em linguagem oral e escrita

Abstract

The school is an ideal space for the primary performance of the speech therapist. The intervention of the speech therapist in the school must happen through partnerships with educators, aiming, among other aspects, to prevent changes related to hearing, language, oral motor skills and voice and the optimization of the teaching and learning process. The present work aims to report the result and the experiences lived in an extension action carried out by the students of the Speech Therapy Course at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas) in 2018 in a public school in the capital of Minas Gerais. To carry out the action, an institutional diagnosis was made at the school. It was a public school, which had a student body of 1024 students aged 6 to 8 years, with classes from the 1st to the 5th year of elementary school. In addition, two questionnaires were prepared: pre-action survey questionnaire, consisting of eight questions on the development of oral and written language in general; and a post-action survey questionnaire, consisting of five evaluative questions. According to the answers obtained in the pre-action questionnaire, an informative material was prepared to be delivered to the parents. It was possible to notice that the majority of those responsible did not have knowledge about the development of oral and written language. The result of the evaluation questionnaire showed that the majority of the guardians rated the folder as “Excellent”, claiming to be explanatory, managing to identify any changes in their child's language after reading the folder. It concluded the relevant contribution of the folder in promoting knowledge about the development of oral and written language and the importance of speech therapy work at school.