PURPOSE: to investigate the teachers' conception about learning disorders, revealing different aspects related to the way they realize it in everyday classes, which factors attribute as causes of the problem and how to deal with this question; also to verify if there was a change after the Speech Pathology orientation. METHOD: there were 25 teachers in this study, who teaches in the Public Elementary School in Sao Paulo. The inclusion criterion adopted was that the teachers should be teaching in 2010. The substitute teachers that didn't follow the class development throughout the year were not included in the study. A questionnaire was applied to investigate the knowledge that the teacher would have about learning disabilities, and afterwards seminars about these difficulties were giving. The data were submitted to statistical analysis and discussed in literature review. The statistical methods were considered absolute frequency and relative frequency and described graphically. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: the results and conclusion of this study showed that the teachers do not have knowledge on learning disorders, but we can observe the effectiveness of orientation and training.
Learning; Faculty; Knowledge
