(Universidade de Blumenau, 2023-11-22) Freitas, Marcos Cezar [UNIFESP]; Gonçalves, Raelen Brandino [UNIFESP]; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6855478178963979
The article shares results of ethnographic research that analyzed
contradictions in the ways of using the categories disability and diversity in the
schooling of children diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Addressed the
growing offer of therapeutic services for students diagnosed with ASD within the scope
of Public Education Networks in the cities of São Paulo and Guarulhos. It identified
situations in which the presence of Therapeutic Attendants became an object of
controversy, since this presence destabilized the principles of Inclusive Education. It
found that there is an ongoing dynamic of appropriation of arguments related to
neurodiversity. It concluded that the pedagogical silencing in relation to the theme can
be analyzed with the concept of making disability that is developed and presented at
the end