Atendimento educacional especializado em deficiência visual: uma experiência de formação continuada no estado da Paraíba

Abstract

The present research approaches the specialized educational care (AEE - Atendimento Educacional Especializado – Specialized Educational Care) in visual impairment, having as focus a continuing educational experience offered to about 200 teachers from Paraíba, whom work at the multifunctional resources classrooms as also in the regular teaching classes. Therefore, it is set as a main goal to analyze the contributions of the classroom course of improvement at AEE in the area of visual impairment, aimed to the professionals that work with this intended audience, being this done in an regular teaching classroom or in an multifunctional resources one. This paper is based on public policies of inclusion since the Brazilian Constitution year until nowadays, approaching relevant concepts and practices at the blind and/or low vision student’s context, which should be covered in the Graduation courses for teachers that work in this area. This is a qualitative research, having as method procedure to data collecting, the application of a semi-estructured questionnaire, done along with teachers who graduated on different centers of the Paraíba State. To data analysis, it will be sought to reflect over the theoretical elements about visual impairment, associating them with teachers reports, which showed the contributions offered by the graduation on the four big regions of the state: Litoral (Coast), Agreste (Rough), Brejo (Fen) and Cariri (typical geographic region). Many teachers revealed already putting into practice the learning acquired on the graduation. One of the biggest challenges is the course coming to cover not only the AEE teachers but also teachers that work in the regular education as well and that this formation be expanded to another regions of the state, widening this service to others cities where there is a substantial number of people with deficient visual impairment care, taking as example, the Sertão (backwoods) of Paraíba.