PERCEPÇÕES DE ESTUDANTES DO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL SEM DEFICIÊNCIA SOBRE A DEFICIÊNCIA AUDITIVA

it is necessary to eliminate exclusion and segregation, seeking the inclusion of all people, regardless of their differences, enabling participation in all areas of society, one of which is the school. Therefore, it is important to include and not only integrate students with disabilities and/or disorders. For there to be inclusion, it is important to work with perceptions about disabilities, since these influence social attitudes. Based on this, the objective of the research, the results of which are presented in this article, consists of, in the context of a school, analyzing the perceptions of students without disabilities about hearing impairment. For this, 21 children enrolled in a third year of the initial years of elementary school in a municipality in the interior of São Paulo participated in the research. The children answered a questionnaire with questions about hearing impairment, then participated in an information program on inclusion and diversity, recording what they had learned. Then, a qualitative analysis of the contents contained in the children's records was carried out. There was a significant increase in children's favorable perception of hearing impairment, as they initially showed more unfavorable responses, however after participating in the children's information program meeting, there was a significant increase in favorable responses to respect and respect. empathy regarding individual differences and potentialities. of people with hearing disabilities. Therefore, it is necessary to look for possibilities of moments in school for dialogue related to inclusion and diversity, since these moments can change the perceptions of children and, consequently, their social attitudes. es necesario eliminar la exclusión y la segregación, buscando la inclusión de todas las personas, independientemente de sus diferencias, posibilitando la participación en todos los ámbitos de la sociedad, uno de los cuales es la escuela. Por lo tanto, es importante incluir y no solo integrar a los estudiantes con discapacidades y/o trastornos. Para que haya inclusión, es importante trabajar con las percepciones sobre las discapacidades, ya que estas influyen en las actitudes sociales. Con base en esto, el objetivo de la investigación, cuyos resultados se presentan en este artículo, consiste en, en el contexto de una escuela, analizar las percepciones de estudiantes sin discapacidad sobre la deficiencia auditiva. Para ello, participaron de la investigación 21 n