The use of educational software to support the learning of reading by students with intellectual disabilities in the literacy phase - case study.
Educational Software; Intellectual Disability; Reading; Literacy.
Technologies have increasingly been used at school environments, their use has contributed to the learning and development through various technological resources. In this research, educational software, due to its dynamic, attractive and intuitive configurations, it was considered as support resources for learning to read by students with an intellectual disabilities. Due to the relevance and visibility of the use of technological resources, this research aims to answer: The use of educational software can contribute to the learning process of reading for students with an intellectual disabilities in the literacy stage? For this purpose, a case study with participant observation was done, followed by an application and a feedback under the qualitative approach. The research participants were: a student with an intellectual disabilities enrolled in the Initial Literacy Stage who attended the 3rd year of elementary school, student's guardian, the class teacher and the Specialized Educational Service (AEE) teacher. The research was carried out in the Generalist Resource Room of a public school in Distrito Federal through the use of educational software EduEdu and GraphoGame to support learning to read. The instruments used for data collection were: documentary research, questionnaires, semistructured interview scripts, logbook, initial and final evaluation. The data used were analyzed from the perspective of Bardin (2016), adapted from Franco (2018). The results revealed that the educational software favored the student's reading process.