MEDICALIZAÇÃO NA INFÂNCIA: UM CARIMBO QUE IMPLICA NA SUBJETIVIDADE DA CRIANÇA

Abstract

Investigations in the field of education, as in Beltrame et al. (2019), Collares y Moysés (2011), Gomes (2019), Guarido (2008), Toassa (2021), among others, demonstrate a significant increase in diagnoses of different disorders in the school space, calling attention to the phenomenon of the pathologization. and the medicalization of learning difficulties. In view of that, the present study is justified by approaching a topic that, despite being debated in different spaces of society, needs to be constantly highlighted, especially in the school environment, due to the different conceptions that have been denounced on the derivation of children and girls. young people to the clinic, since they are considered different from what is expected by the school. Therefore, a theoretical study of a bibliographic nature was carried out, with the objective of contextualizing the theme and extracting data on the production of the diagnosis in the school context and its consequences for students who present difficulties in learning. The starting point was the following question: how does the diagnosis impact the schooling process of students with learning difficulties? The general objective was to understand how the diagnosis influences the construction of the student's subjectivity in the schooling process. Specifically, we seek to describe the production of diagnoses of intellectual disability in students with learning difficulties, to problematize the pathologization of children in the schooling process and to highlight the impact of the diagnosis on the construction of the subjectivity of this subject. As a methodology, a bibliographic review was used with the aim of locating the object of study in the field of investigations on the topic, constructing a contextualization about the proposed question and demonstrating how the consequences of a superficial and light diagnosis can be converted into negative consequences and irreversible. for the process of schooling of students with learning difficulties and diagnosis of intellectual disability. From the cases presented, it can be appreciated that the impact of the report of intellectual disability in the life of these children works as a seal; a stigma that carries with great suffering.