Terapia Ocupacional, Reabilitação e Educação no Brasil: recortes de uma história

Abstract

Introduction: The field of rehabilitation in occupational therapy has had a strong influence on the subfield of occupational therapy in the education sector in Brazil. Nowadays, occupational therapists who work in this sector are critical of the expectations that services have that these professionals develop clinical work in their work in schools. Objective: Given this, we aimed to identify the practice of 1https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0899-7939 Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Departamento de Terapia Ocupacional. Paraíba, Brasil. richelle773@gmail.com 2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6334-7592 Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Departamento de Terapia Ocupacional. Paraíba, Brasil. joana.rostirolla@gmail.com occupational therapy in Brazilian education, specifically, through articles that sought to discuss ethical and political practices and the processes of inclusion of children with disabilities, as well as the influences arising from the field of knowledge of rehabilitation. Method: documental analysis and bibliographical review, using a historical clipping with texts published between the years 2001 and 2008, of Brazilian origin, and legal professional documents that concern the practice in the education sector. Results and conclusion: Several practices were identified through the articles used, demonstrating the influence of rehabilitation in the field of knowledge and which criticisms existed in the cited time frame.