A Participação de uma discente cega em projetos de extensão na UFPB: desafios para a inclusão

Abstract

This study tends to report the perceptions of a blind student about participating in two extension projects at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). Such projects, developed by the Education Center, proposed to respond to the aspirations of the academic community, in general, and of people with disabilities, in particular, in search of a more equal treatment within educational environments, regardless of impediments of a physical nature, motor, sensory, psychic or intellectual they carry. The fact that the author is blind places her as the protagonist of empowering situations experienced within virtually all spaces in higher education- which subtracted her chances of learning in an adapted way as much as most of her colleagues in the Occupational Therapy course. Methodologically, the research is, with autobiographical approach, whose data were collected and analyzed in the light of the life stories of blind people, their readings of the world, their feelings and perceptions, interconnected with the social context in which they live. are located. Finally, above the need for yet another normative resolution, it concludes on the importance of awareness and awareness of students and teachers regarding the duty to include, with more information about visual impairment and about the needs that will contemplate the student's learning.