Autonomia e dependência na relação entre estudantes com deficiência visual e seus ledores

Abstract

This research discussed the relationship between students with visual impairments and readers, professionals responsible for reading. The objective was to understand the relationship established between these individuals from the classroom in higher education. Specifically, it was noted how students with visual impairments experienced working in the reader access, perception and knowledge acquisition in the classroom, and analyzed the possibility of formation and autonomy for those involved in this process, assuming that there are subjectivities influencing and influenced on both sides (student and reads) Semi-structured interviews were conducted with college students with total or partial visual impairments in which the topics were around his family life, schooland the relationship with the current educational institution, teachers, classmates and professional readers. For the interpretation of data, categories were defined based on preliminary analyzes made, and items emerged from the interviews. The collected material was submitted to qualitative analysis of` its contents, building categories that matched the proposed objective. Was adopted the Critical Theory of Society as a theoretical framework, especially the writings of T. W. Adorno on autonomy. The results indicated the existence of tension between dependence and autonomy. The relationship between the student with visual impairment and their professional readers in Higher Education, may lead to the emergence of formative experiences that enable critical consciousness. This relationship depends on the time of coexistence, empathy and daily life established between involved