Atendimento educacional especializado na educação infantil do estado da Paraíba: o caso da mesorregião da mata paraibana

Abstract

The Specialized Educational Service is an important service of the entire Special Education, not differently from Early Childhood Education. This paper was carried out based on a research conducted in the Scientific Initiation Program of the Federal University of Paraiba and it aims to analyze Specialized Educational Service situation in Early Childhood Education of the cities belonging to “Mata Paraibana”. In order to do this paper, it was used as theoretical basis the Brazilian laws, a brief history on Special Education in Brazil and the scholars and researchers’ views on the Special Educational Service itself and in Early Childhood Education. Towards the collection of data, it was firstly held surveys on the Ministry of Education and Culture websites and a questionnaire was sent to the cities' Education Departments. At the end of this stage, interviews were conducted with four teachers from the Multifunction Resource Rooms, in order to better understand the existing services situation and conditions. This paper proposes a reflection about the conditions of the Specialized Educational Service in “Mata Paraibana”, given data reality and reports made by Multifunction Resource Rooms teachers. It was possible to notice that Specialized Educational Service in Mata Paraibana’s Early Childhood Education is moving forward slowly, being left in the hands of Multifunction Resource Rooms teachers, who receive the responsibility of, most of the time, funding materials, adapting to the lack of physical locations to provide the service and training to his/her professional qualification, among other disregards.