The purpose of this study was to get a review about the scientific production shown by the Brazilian indexed literature at the psychology area for the period between 1999 and 2008. It was based on empiric studies, which described distinct interactions between children with special educational needs and their relatives, as well as the implications for their development, seen by different theoretical perspectives. A systematic search has been done using data registered in three bibliographic bases (SCIELO, LILACS and Capes periodic reviews). The key words used were: families with deficient children, special education needs, family, familiar relations, brothers, fraternal relations. A number of 17 articles was found. They were analyzed considering different aspects (periodic reviews in which they were published, related variables, collecting techniques and main results obtained. It could be seen that the theme has been scarcely studied.
Family relations; special educational needs; deficiency
