Interação Social Criança-Criança de Deficientes Visuais

The article deals with a study on the interaction of children 1-3 years in a mining state school specializing in education of the visually impaired. We used a qualitative approach, opting for ethnographic inspiration and capturing the interactions through participant observation, video recordings, photographs and records in the field notebook. As Gobbi, we used the term for those little niggling variety children up to three years, considering how the sociology of childhood, the child as social actor and participant. According to Woods, it was considered as a social interaction process in which people define, assign meanings, align and realign their actions to satisfy their interests, comparing them, trimming and outlining strategies. At the end of the study, there was an oscillation between the presence or absence of interaction between children. It was concluded that, from an early age, very young visually impaired children are able to act and react toward each other, to put themselves available for interaction.