Writing the visual

Chris Abbot

Bruna PintoDébora LeiteFernanda Moraes

“Previous generations have grown up in a world circumscribed by text”

“ …contemporary texts are more likely to privilege the image in ways which are new, but also in ways which provoke debate.

Peter... has an autistic spectrum disorder and is hyperlexic. He is a very fluent reader but although he is able to read anything, even very complex material, he has no understanding of what words mean. Staff at his school added symbols to his texts, from which he has been able to learn what the text is about and to begin to read with some understanding.

(Abbot 2000a:10)

Clever come climb computer

to read to break to write we/us

foot kite dog mummy

Schools

Centers for people with special needs

Many people of those people who have most to gain from such technologies are often those least able to get access to them.

“ Recognize that the present generation of young people expect their learning resources to be multimedia, individualized and not over-reliant on word-based text. “

ABBOTT, C. Writing the visual: the use of graphic symbols in onscreen texts. p.31-46. In: SNYDER, I. Silicon literacies. London, New York: Routledge. 2006

ACE Centre advisory trust. Disponível em: http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/acecent/html/res02.html accessed on May 1st, 2012