As tecnologias de informação e comunicação no contexto de paralisia cerebral: a sua pertinência para o desenvolvimento da comunicação e da aprendizagem

Information and Communication Technologies have been used with students with cerebral palsy in order to develop their communication and learning processes. In this sense, this study was conducted in order to verify how Information and Communication Technologies can be a contribution to the promotion of communication and learning of students with cerebral palsy. With a mixed methodology (quantitative and qualitative), forty-six teachers were submitted to a questionnaire and two students with cerebral palsy were observed using Information and Communication Technologies. It was concluded, in general, that the majority of surveyed teachers use Information and Communication Technologies very often in their daily activity; they agree that technologies contribute to learning as well as that they potentiate the development of communication and facilitate the inclusion of students with Cerebral Palsy. The two observed students seemed to be more motivated when performing activities on the computer, showing greater autonomy in the tasks. Communication technologies also assumed an important role in the development of psychomotor skills.