Production writing intellectual disability in interaction with digital technologies of information and communication

Abstract

This article is part of a larger research that investigates whether mediation in the digital environment influences the quality of textual productions under the semantic and orthographic writing of people with intellectual disabilities (DI). The largest study also verifies that the Blogs feeding activity influences the social interaction, Digital Technologies of Information and Communication (TDIC) and digital literacy. The research supports the socio-constructivist approach. This paper aims to investigate the use of TDIC, in partnership with volunteer mediators (MV), influences the development of writing skills of people with DI. Data collection is performed by the proposition of intervention sessions in which people with DI produce texts, under the mediation of the MV in the digital context. The results indicate that the mediation strategies established by MV exert positive influence on the writing skills of participants with DI, as they qualitatively change their texts. This result suggests that the mediation of the MV in the digital environment is constituted as an important strategy for enabling evolution from the writing of people with DI. We conclude that the participants of this research benefit from TDIC, and demonstrate competence to use the resources available in the digital environment. The evolution of writing is verified, when the actions of people with ID in the use of TDIC are mediated clearly, contextualized, objective and adequate.