AUTISMO E EDUCAÇÃO NAS PÁGINAS DOS JORNAIS FOLHA DE SÃO PAULO E JORNAL DO BRASIL NOS ANOS 1980.

This paper aims to analyze articles published in the 1980s, in Jornal do Brasil and in Folha de São Paulo, emphasizing the news that articulate autism and education. It is a documentary research, with a historic approach, considering the notes of Luca (2005) ─ who comprises the newspapers as relevant sources for the construction of historical narratives ─ and Pontes and Silva (2012), who understand that the newspapers depict and built the reality in its pages. It was observed that, along with the educational service measures focused on autists, the associations have developed an important work to disseminate the theme in Brazil, indicating the relevance of the familiar activism, that left, as a legacy, the beginning of the debate about the importance of the rights of autistics to access education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]