PERCEPTIONS OF CHILDREN WITHOUT DISABILITIES ON THE LEISURE OF PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DEFICIENCY: EFFECTS OF AN INFORMATIVE PROGRAM

Abstract

This study aims to analyze, in the educational context, the effects of an informative program in regard to the perceptions of children without disabilities on the leisure of people with physical disabilities. Twenty-one students enrolled in a class of the third year of the initial series of Elementary Education participated in the research. For this, initially, they answered a questionnaire related to the deficiencies, after that, an informative program on inclusion and diversity was applied. After the implementation of each meeting of the program, the class investigated was asked to draw or write about what they had learned. In the research presented in this text, the records were selected after the fifth meeting, whose theme was related to physical and multiple deficiencies. These records were analyzed according to content analysis, seeking to locate records about leisure. From that, it was verified that for the children of that age group there was no difficulty to observe that the pairs with physical disability are not only entitled to leisure, but they have conditions to deal with that way.