A inclusão da estudante com Síndrome de Down na educação fundamental I

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the inclusion of a Student with Down Syndrome (SD) in Fundamental Education I. The process of inclusion at school has been a subject of big relevance in the process of search for better quality in the student life for educating with disabilities. The SD is a genetic chromosomal condition occurring in chromosome 21, known as trisomy 21. The people with SD have cognitive deficits and a delay in their intellectual and motor development, as well as muscular hypotonia, different from children without SD, need a curricular practice adequate to their real needs, but this does not prevent their social, personal and cognitive development. However, in order to achieve an evolution in the learning of children with SD, several factors are required, such as the involvement of the family, as well as, if possible, a specialized educational service with qualified professionals besides the improvement of the teachers. Thus, this study was accomplished from a bibliographical and field research, with a qualitative and exploratory approach, based on data collected at the João Lins municipal school in the city of São Miguel de Taipu/PB, with the purpose of analyzing the inclusion of a student with SD, and application of semi-structured interviews, with the participation of a manager, a teacher and a child with SD. From the results of the study, it was noticed that despite the difficulties and lack of curricular projects that brings adequate methodology, the teacher is always looking for pedagogical practices that involve and contribute to the learning of children with SD, not limiting their practices only in what the school supplies.