A acolhida as famílias e as pessoas com autismo : uma contribuição teórico-operativo na assistência social brasileira

Abstract

This Undergraduate Thesis analyzes the theme of social protection and the theoretical contributions of Social Work to Social Assistance Policy in the reception of families and individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This is a qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive study, grounded in historical-dialectical materialism, which uses documentary analysis as its central methodological procedure. The study takes autism as a refraction of the social question. The general objective is to analyze the theoretical contributions within the field of Social Assistance Policy regarding autistic individuals, with the specific objectives of analyzing national legislation, official documents of the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS), resolutions of the Federal Council of Social Work, institutional reports, and academic productions on disability and autism, as well as discussing the reception of autism and the professional practice of Social Work in the face of theoretical scarcity and the lack of guidance for intervention in social protection policies, in addition to addressing critical, intersectional, and anti-ableist training in the reception of families of autistic individuals. The results show that the recognition of autism as a disability, consolidated by Law No. 12,764/2012, occurred belatedly in Brazil, directly impacting the formulation and implementation of public policies. Based on the social model of disability and the anti-ableist struggle, it is demonstrated that the barriers faced by autistic individuals are socially produced and intersected by inequalities of class, race, gender, and territory. The analysis of the legal framework composed of the Federal Constitution, LOAS, SUAS, the Berenice Piana Law, and the Brazilian Law of Inclusion reveals normative advances, but also contradictions resulting from the underfunding of social policies, weak intersectoral coordination, and the persistence of institutional ableism. In the field of social assistance, the centrality of the Continuous Cash Benefit (BPC), the role of CRAS, and the strategic function of Social Work are highlighted, whose practice must articulate technical-operational, theoretical-methodological, and ethical- political dimensions. It is concluded that the realization of the rights of autistic individuals depends on the strengthening of SUAS, the expansion of social protection, the critical training of professionals, and theoretical production committed to human emancipation and the confrontation of ableism.