Busca e uso da informação sobre autismo

Abstract

Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder is a syndrome that affects mainly communication(verbal and non-verbal). It may affect or not the development of the language skills, the social interaction and imagination, three important factors for its diagnose. This paper is aimed primarily to investigate the search and use of information of the users of information on autism at Associação de Pais e Amigos do Autista da Paraíba. The study has an exploratory-descriptive characteristic with a quantitative-qualitative approach and used a questionnaire with different types of questions to collect the data. It is evident that the search and use of information of the parents of the autistic children as well as the informational practices of the friends of the autistic children are compatible with the user’s informational behavior at the present time, since they search for electronic sources of information such as the internet, blogs, websites and youtube. However, they also search for information in traditional sources such as books and people.