BLIND STUDENTS’ LITERACY: WHAT DOES THE NATIONAL PERIODICAL PRODUCTION SHOW?¹

ABSTRACT:

This review article catalogs and analyzes Brazilian scientific articles on blind people's literacy. To this end, we carried out a systematic search by subject on the Portal de Periódicos of the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). As a corpus for analysis, we found only seven national scientific articles published between 2007 and 2022 in different journals, without any identifiable patterns regarding their insertion, frequency, and bibliographic dissemination. Amongst them, only three are indexed in the Scielo database. The articles, in short, show the relevance of Braille for blind learners' initial learning of reading and writing. However, their samples present limited and reduced data, mainly due to the small number of blind participants. The space-time of the inclusive standard class was absent from the articles, which mainly dealt with institutions or specialized contexts. In addition, the authors' research contexts and institutions are concentrated in the Brazilian Southeast-South regions. Furthermore, theoretical-methodological insufficiencies persist in scientific research communication. Therefore, we recommend new and broader studies exploring the interfaces between literacy and blindness in Brazil, with the dissemination of their results in scientific journals.

Keywords:
literacy; blindness; scientific literature