Abstract

MELO, Sandra Cordeiro de; CONSTANT, Elaine  and  FERREIRA, Adriana Teixeira. ACCESS AND PERMANENCE OF PEOPLE WITH AUTISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION. Revista Teias [online]. 2023, vol.24, n.73, pp.112-128.  Epub Aug 24, 2023. ISSN 1982-0305.  https://doi.org/10.12957/teias.2023.74128.

This article aims to analyze the process of access and permanence of people with autism in higher education according to the scientific productions developed in the educational field. The Periodical Portal of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) were defined as the databases used to search and select the papers. After the literature review, five studies were selected. The analysis showed that there is a scarcity of studies on this theme. The legal provisions were pointed out as responsible for the increase of enrollment of people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in higher education, but the access of these students is still incipient. The studies highlighted barriers for the permanence of students with autism in the university, such as the characteristics of autism, the lack of information from the academic community and the lack of faculty training to deal with diversity. Regarding the factors that act as facilitators for the inclusion, the authors indicated the Accessibility Centers as fundamental organs so that the student with disability can enter the undergraduate course and finish it, the performance of tutors and the dissemination of information about autism. We conclude that, for the process of access and permanence of people with ASD in higher education to become a reality, there is an urgent need to review the practices employed so far for inclusion. For this, new research and discussions on this theme are fundamental.

Keywords : access and permanence; autism; higher education.

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