O objetivo do estudo foi investigar o conhecimento de professores da Rede Municipal de Ensino do Recife sobre a relação das habilidades auditivas e linguísticas com a aprendizagem, sobre a fonoaudiologia educacional e o perfil de formação dos professores dos primeiros anos da escolarização básica do Brasil. Trata-se de um estudo exploratório quantitativo e qualitativo, realizado com 488 professores que lecionam na rede pública de ensino do município de Recife/PE/Brasil. Os dados foram recolhidos por meio de um questionário estruturado, aplicado durante encontros mensais de formação continuada para professores. Os resultados revelaram que os professores reconhecem, de um modo geral, a importância da audição e da linguagem para a aprendizagem, embora não se sintam preparados para lidar com isso na escola e, como esperado, não possuem conhecimentos mais específicos sobre o processamento auditivo. Consequentemente, os encaminhamentos para especialistas da saúde são frequentes diante dos problemas de aprendizagem, desconsiderando as habilidades auditivas. Conclui-se que os professores reconhecem a importância do tema abordado; contudo, demonstram não ter domínio sobre a relevância das habilidades auditivas e linguísticas para a aprendizagem e para o desenvolvimento do estudante, bem como conhecimentos sobre o papel do fonoaudiólogo no âmbito escolar.
Purpose: to investigate the teachers’ knowledge on educational speech-language-hearing pathology and the importance of auditory and linguistic skills to learning, comparing the answers of public-school teachers with those of private ones. Methods: an exploratory study with a mixed quantitative and qualitative approach, conducted with 25 teachers working in kindergarten and elementary school. Data were collected with a questionnaire comprising 19 closed-ended questions (which dealt with the relationship between language, hearing, and learning) and one open-ended question (which approached their knowledge on educational speech-language-hearing pathology. The quantitative data were analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistical analyses, and the qualitative ones, with theme modality content analysis. Results: in general, the teachers recognize the importance of hearing and language to learning, although they do not feel prepared to deal with it at school, neither do they have more specific knowledge of auditory processing. The results obtained in the open-ended question revealed an also limited knowledge on educational speech-language-hearing pathology. In this sense, their greatest source of information was some teachers’ previous experience with the work of a speech-language-hearing pathologist within the educational setting. No important differences were observed between the answers given by public school teachers and those by private ones. Conclusion: the teachers’ knowledge on educational speech-language-hearing pathology and the importance of hearing and language to learning is still limited, which requires more investment in the training in this field.
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