Educação especial e pandemia: a percepção dos professores do atendimento educacional especializado quanto aos impactos da Covid-19

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has had harsh impacts on students' daily lives. Students with disabilities already faced challenges before this pandemic, so during this context their challenges only intensified. When it comes to inclusive education, the need for qualification to work with students with specific needs is growing, but not only that, the pandemic context also showed that it is necessary to specialize and start working with something that is completely present in the students' daily lives, technology. This work was carried out with the objective of analyzing the perception of the Specialized Educational Attendance teacher about the impacts of Covid-19 in the teaching-learning process of the target audience of Special Education, from the interviews with two teachers who worked in the Specialized Educational Attendance in a city of the metropolitan region of João Pessoa, in the state of Paraíba. An interview script was prepared and these interviews took place in single, individual sessions, in the schools where the teachers taught. After the interviews, the áudios were transcribed in full and analyzed qualitatively, through themes. The results showed that the target students did not have satisfactory learning. The teachers believe that, like the other students, they were severely impacted by the use of remote learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is considered that it is up to us educators to seek viable alternatives, to improve our pedagogical practices, because the impacts left by the pandemic require effort to be solved.