Considerações investigativas sobre a função educacional e histórica da APAE-Areia-PB: um olhar crítico sobre a educação inclusiva

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the educational function and evaluate how the Association of Parents and Friends of the Exceptional (APAE) contributes significantly to the lives of children, young people and even adults with special needs. The work was developed at the APAE-Areia-PB, where a research was done with the parents of the children who are assisted in the institution. The research was done through a questionnaire answered by the parents, being the systematized data later. Through the research it was possible to evaluate and analyze how the attendances and consequently the evolution of the children, youth, adults and of the parents who have received assistance in the APAE have been evaluated. Based on the results obtained it can be concluded that the APAE develops a work of paramount importance for the children and others who need it, since it has provided the improvement and the development of the same, so much that the parents approve and recommend to others parents who seek help in the institution, because through the same is that their children have developed their motor coordination, has increased self-confidence and clear overcoming barriers such as existing prejudice in society, which influences in a decisive way the inclusion of people with special needs.