Abstract

GALVAO, Nelma de Cássia Silva Sandes  and  MIRANDA, Theresinha Guimarães. Atendimento educacional especializado para alunos com surdocegueira: um estudo de caso no espaço da escola regular. Rev. bras. educ. espec. [online]. 2013, vol.19, n.01, pp.43-60. ISSN 1413-6538.

This article examines and discusses the different forms of Specialized Educational Support offered to students with deafblindness, in Basic Education, in regular schools of the city of Salvador, Bahia, pointing out significant aspects, highlighted the barriers and opportunities to meet the special needs of these students . This work is part of a doctorate research in education and has a qualitative approach, the case study, taking as sample, four deafblind students, three of them are in elementary school, and one in a high school. The instrument for colect the information was an interview with the professionals and the data were organized using three categories: the dynamics of the Specialized Educational Support, the action of the professional development in the Specialized Educational Support and the connection between the Specialized Educational Support and the special needs of students with deafblindness. The results indicated: the absence of a planned action, leading an improvisations and fragmentation of the Specialized Educational Support; isolation of professionals. This situation originates in pedagogical actions disjointed between the regular classroom teachers and specialists; ignore the special educational needs of students with deafblindness with consequent invisibility of these students in school.

Keywords : Special Education; Deaf-Blind; Specialized Educational Support; Inclusion.

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