PURPOSE: to investigate the knowledge of the elementary education of first to fourth grade teachers as for reading and writing disorder, searching which difficulties refer to this disorder, they had been submitted by these teachers. METHODS: these data had been achieved, by means of an informative questionnaire of 10 questions, applied to 50 teachers of the elementary education of first to fourth grade from Bauru city. The questionnaires were analyzed and tabulated, and received statistical treatment. RESULTS: the obtained results reveal that the teachers have a superficial knowledge regarding the reading and writing disorder, being that many had acquired such knowledge outside the graduation environment. It was also verified that although the teachers direct their students to the Speech Pathologist, they have limited vision as for the performance of this professional. The reading and writing disorder is considered as a proper problem of the child, being little recognized as a fault that also can be related to the "school" or of the education methodology. CONCLUSION: teachers have little knowledge about reading and writing disorder; whereas, difficulties are centered around the following reasons: the identification of the real problem; events which characterize this problem; how to intervene and prevent it.
Reading; Learning; Education
