Compreender para atuar: perspectivas dos direitos da pessoa com TEA e a importância da inclusão para a intervenção profissional do/assistente social

Abstract

Theme of presente work is Autism Spectrum Disorder, and the research problem was defined as: "What are the public policies and assistance services for the person with ASD"? Whose are people with ASD? Who answers for them? In order to answer this problem guiding questions were listed that became guideposts in the conduct of the investigation process: 1) What is ASD? (general aspects of autism); 2) What are the incidence numbers of diagnoses? 3) What laws guarantee the inclusion and rights of people with ASD? 4) What are the public and social policies that meet this audience and their demands? 5) What is the role of the Social Service in guaranteeing access to rights and inclusion for people with ASD? These questions are aligned to issues that arose during the and in the daily experiences reported. by fathers, mothers, family members and guardians of people with ASD. Its main objective is to ?Understand, from the perspective of rights, the person with ASD, and the importance of public policies for the professional intervention of the Social Worker?. To answer the problem and the guiding questions and, thus, reach the objectives, the dialectical-critical method of reading reality was used, valuing the categories historicity, totality, mediation and contradiction. The study is qualitative in nature and regarding the instruments needed for data collection, bibliographic and documental research and surveys of the legal apparatus were used. As a reflection instrument, content analysis was used. The relevance of this work lies in the possibility of stimulating debates on the subject, of giving visibility and seeking to understand all legal achievements until the present day, as well as possibilities and needs of expansion of the same. It is concluded by saying that the implementation of public policies for autistic people is extremely important not only for people with the disorder, but also for their families and everyone around them, since access to adequate treatments, the health system and education, has a very high cost, since they are actions of continuous and frequent need. Therefore, the role of the State is not only to guarantee this access, but to guarantee, essentially, the quality of these services, so that autistic people and their families can achieve a dignified quality of life. It is possible to say that there is an urgent need to fill the gaps between the law and reality with effective measures, which really transform the scenario of exclusion and omission of which people with ASD are part. It is necessary to recognize the reality of autistic people and, more than that, recognize them as an integral part of society, this is essential for the construction of a democratic society in which its members can relate and participate in an active and equal way. conditions, increasingly strengthening integration and respect for differences. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]