A avaliação da aprendizagem escolar de estudantes com deficiência intelectual

Pós-graduação em Educação - FCT

O ensino da escrita e o desenvolvimento das pessoas com deficiência intelectual

This article proposes a theoretical reflection on the development of children with intellectual disabilities, regarding the importance and necessity of the process of learning the written language, from a historical-cultural point of view. For this approach, the course of development of a child disabled or not will occur according to cultural and social conditions experimented by him or her. Therefore, concerning the child with intellectual disabilities, his cultural condition, in dynamic relationship with the obstacles placed in its special condition, will be the source of his development. If the development of higher psychological functions is realized through the use of tools and if the people with intellectual disabilities present an inability to use these tools, there will be the need for aids so they can learn to use them in order to train and develop their psychic functions. In this process, education and written language acquisitions are fundamental ways of accessibility to the cultural world, a wider significance of communication in the world and to oneself. In short, the educators' comprehension about the importance of intentional teaching of written language and the historical process that envolves its development represents a fundamental contribution to the process of humanization of children with disabilities.

Influência das representações sociais do pesquisador na análise de dados de entrevistas: um estudo no campo da educação especial

Social representations are values and ideas shared and transmitted by a group of individuals. This article aims to investigate how researchers’ social representations can influence their analysis of an interview. Data were collected from 28 students participating in a course on interview analysis. Students were divided into three groups. Each group received the same excerpt of a transcript, but with different characterizations of the interviewee: for Group 1, it was a young man who had studied in a public school; for Group 2, the subject had attended a special education school for people with intellectual disabilities; for Group 3, he had studied at a private school. The three groups were asked to analyze the interview and submit a written document describing their analysis. The data revealed that the students carried out interpretive synthesis, descriptive synthesis, and thematic analysis. Interpretations of content data indicated that participants in Groups 1 and 3 attributed negative representations to the interviewee and/or to public or private school. In contrast, participants in Group 2, which was told that the interviewee had intellectual disabilities, attributed positive representations to the interviewee and to the special education school. The conclusion indicates the urgency for theoretical and practical training of young researchers regarding analysis of interviews so that the representations do not lead to biased results. The comparison of the results with an earlier similar study points to a probable change in representations of people with intellectual disabilities.

Avaliação da aprendizagem e deficiência intelectual na perspectiva de professores do ensino comum

The aim of this study was to identify and analyze the conceptions of a group of teachers in cycle-1 elementary school on intellectual disability and assessment of school learning. It is a qualitative research that used a semi-structured interview script for its investigation. The teachers' reports showed some weakness and lack of preparation to deal with the inclusion of pupils with intellectual disabilities, and consequently difficult to assess their learning conditions. It was also found that the assessment used by them was characterized by sluggish and it was based mainly on the use of quantitative measuring instruments. Such instruments shortly guide the process of teaching and learning, consequently do not contribute to effective the inclusion of these school students.

Aprendizagem de alunos com deficiência intelectual do ciclo I do Ensino Fundamental: o desempenho em leitura e escrita e a formação de professores

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Contos de fadas: recurso educativo para crianças com deficiência intelectual

Studies show the psychological contribution of fairy tales regarding the child's development as one of the best plumbers of existential problems, appeasing it by acting as an outlet for their anguish, anxieties, and fears, engendering greater emotional balance. Thus, through researches in the literature, it was established as objective to seek information about the functionality of the fairy tales in the educational process of students with intellectual disabilities who presents challenging behaviors. Among the tales, the Brothers Grimm are suggested to be used as an educational resource. It was possible to say that, through the symbolic mediation in the imaginary of children with intellectual disabilities, educational work with fairy tales evokes significant benefits.

Opinião de professores sobre a sexualidade e a educação sexual de alunos com deficiência intelectual

Using a questionnaire for quantitative and qualitative analysis, this descriptive study investigated the opinion of 451 teachers about sexuality and sexual education of students with intellectual disabilities. The majority (94.2%) perceives the sexuality of their students with intellectual disabilities, identifies their desire to date (38.3%), occurrence of questions (35.8%), sexual games and masturbation (19.6%) and the inappropriate behavior (6.3%); before that, they have positive feelings (37.5%) and negative (53.8%). Teachers believe they can contribute to the sexual education of their students (87.8%), however, they considered necessary the own training (39.9%) or the support of the school and the family (24.4%). It is important to invest in continuous training in sexual education for teachers working in inclusive schools.

Intervenções com a atividade física em crianças e adolescentes com deficiência intelectual: uma meta-análise

Abstract Intellectual disability is development atypical conditions that involve issues on a number of factors, such as intellectual skills, adaptive behavior, interactions and social roles. Furthermore, they report higher rates of physical inactivity than the general population, as well as participating less and less of regular physical activity, as they grow and age. The participation of people with intellectual disabilities in physical activity programs promotes, benefits of prevention of diseases, particularly cardiovascular, improvement of intellectual and cognitive ability in addition, regular physical activity promotes reduction of body fat. Therefore the aim of this study was to identify through a systematic review, physical activity programs for adults with intellectual disabilities and their extension of the benefits, limitations and recommendations, moreover, the following objectives: to analyze the types of physical activity programs and determine which is the most suitable for adults with intellectual disabilities, and to determine the benefits that physical exercises programs entail for adults with intellectual disabilities. The initial electronic search resulted in 2808 manuscripts. The predetermined exclusion criteria were: review process of the studies involved reading titles, abstracts and full texts checking. After all these phases, eight manuscripts met the inclusion criteria of the review. Articles presented participants aged between 18 and 67 years with mild to moderate intellectual disability. The intervention period was from 2.5 months studies ranged up to 9 months and the weekly frequency was from one to three times a week. The intervention types differ between the articles analyzed, including leisure and recreation activities, combined exercises of strength and muscular endurance, aerobic activities of hiking, with races and exercise bikes, widespread activities and sports specialization, athletics and...

A inclusão de estudantes com deficiência intelectual na educação básica primária da Colômbia: políticas públicas e práticas pedagógicas / Diego Fernando Rosero Ruiz

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Construção, aplicação e análise de proposta de formação continuada de professores para o ensino de história a alunos com deficiência intelectual

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

O uso do diário de campo na inserção ecológica em uma família de uma comunidade ribeirinha amazônica

O presente estudo visa demonstrar a utilização do diário de campo em pesquisas realizadas em contexto natural sob a perspectiva do modelo bioecológico de Bronfenbrenner. Para efeito de ilustração, são apresentados dados que fizeram parte da pesquisa de mestrado da primeira autora sobre as percepções de uma família com uma criança com deficiência intelectual no contexto ribeirinho amazônico. Após a coleta das informações, os dados foram organizados com base nos conceitos propostos por Bronfenbrenner. O diário de campo permitiu o aprofundamento das análises em que foram contemplados tanto os aspectos contextuais (cultura ribeirinha amazônica), como os pessoais (características biossociopsicológicas da criança/pais) e os processuais (relações, papéis familiares e atividades compartilhadas). Os dados são discutidos considerando a contribuição do diário de campo nas pesquisas que investigam famílias em seu contexto.

OBSERVING BEHAVIOR AND ATYPICALLY RESTRICTED STIMULUS CONTROL

Restricted stimulus control refers to discrimination learning with atypical limitations in the range of controlling stimuli or stimulus features In the study reported here 4 normally capable individuals and 10 individuals with Intellectual disabilities (ID) performed two-sample delayed matching to sample Sample stimulus observing was recorded with an eye tracking apparatus High accuracy scores indicated stimulus control by both sample stimuli for the 4 nondisabled participants and 4 participants with ID and eye tracking data showed reliable observing of all stimuli Intermediate accuracy scores indicated restricted stimulus control for the remaining 6 participants Their eye tracking data showed that errors were related to failures to observe sample stimuli and relatively brief observing durations Five of these participants were then given interventions designed to improve observing behavior For 4 participants the interventions resulted initially in elimination of observing failures increased observing durations and Increased accuracy For 2 of these participants contingencies sufficient to maintain adequate observing were not always sufficient to maintain high accuracy subsequent procedure modifications restored It however For the 5th participant initial improvements in observing were not accompanied by improved accuracy in apparent Instance of observing without attending accuracy improved only after an additional intervention that imposed contingencies on observing behavior Thus interventions that control observing behavior seem necessary but may not always be sufficient for the remediation of restricted stimulus control

Justificación de las pruebas motrices en el deporte para personas con discapacidad intelectual.

[ES] Las personas con discapacidad intelectual suelen tener problemas en los procesos perceptivos y de toma de decisiones, lo que dificulta su participación en las competiciones deportivas en las que el procesamiento de la información juega un papel fundamental, tales como las modalidades deportivas abiertas. Esta investigación presenta la fundamentación científica de la utilización de pruebas motrices como una opción de competición para este tipo de personas, subrayando la importancia de su desarrollo y evolución desde la concepción de las Ciencias del Deporte.

A Comparative Study of Central and Eastern European Social Policy Concernig Mental Disability

The main goal of this project was to identity whether an imported system of social policy can be suitable for a host country, and if not why not. Romanian social policy concerning the mentally disabled represents a paradoxical situation in that while social policy is designed to ensure both an institutional structure and a juridical environment, in practice it is far from successful. The central question which Ms. Ciumageanu asked therefore was whether this failure was due to systemic factors, or whether the problem lay in reworking an imported social policy system to meet local needs. She took a comparative approach, also considering both the Scandinavian model of social policy, particularly the Danish model which has been adopted in Romania, and the Hungarian system, which has inherited a similar universal welfare system and perpetuated it to some extent. In order to verify her hypothesis, she also studied the transformation of the welfare system in Great Britain, which meant a shift from state responsibility towards community care. In all these she concentrated on two major aspects: the structural design within the different countries and, at a micro level, the societal response. Following her analyses of the various in the other countries concerned, Ms. Ciumageanu concluded that the major differences lie first in the difference between the stages of policy design. Here Denmark is the most advanced and Romania the most backwards. Denmark has a fairly elaborate infrastructure, Britain a system with may gaps to bridge, and Hungary and Romania are struggling with severe difficulties owing both to the inherited structure and the limits imposed by an inadequate GDP. While in Denmark and Britain, mental patients are integrated into an elaborate system of care, designed and administered by the state (in Denmark) or communities (in Britain), in Hungary and Romania, the state designs and fails to implement the policy and community support is minimal, partly due to the lack of a fully developed civil society. At the micro level the differences are similar. While in Denmark and Britain there is a consensus about the roles of the state and of civil societies (although at different levels in the two countries, with the state being more supportive in Denmark), in Romania and to a considerable extent in Hungary, civil society tends to expect too much from the state, which in its turn is withdrawing faster from its social roles than from its economic ones, generating a gap between the welfare state and the market economy and disadvantaging the expected transition from a welfare state to a welfare society and, implicitly, the societal response towards those mentally disabled persons in it. On an intermediate level, the factors influencing social policy as a whole were much the same for Hungary and Romania. Economic factors include the accumulated economic resources of both state and citizens, and the inherited pattern of redistribution, as well as the infrastructure; institutional resources include the role of the state and the efficiency of the state bureaucracy, the strength and efficiency of the state apparatus, political stability and the complexity of political democratisation, the introduction of market institutions, the strength of civil society and civic sector institutions. From the standpoint of the societal response, some factors were common to all countries, particularly the historical context, the collective and institutional memories and established patterns of behaviour. In the specific case of Romania, general structural and environmental factors - industrialisation and forced urbanisation - have had a definite influence on family structure, values and behavioural patterns. The analysis of Romanian social policy revealed several causes for failure to date. The first was the instability of the policy and the failure to consider the structural network involved in developing it, rather than just the results obtained. The second was the failure to take into account the relationship between the individual and the group in all its aspects, followed by the lack of active assistance for prevention, re-socialisation or professional integration of persons with mental disabilities. Finally, the state fails to recognise its inability to support an expensive psychiatric enterprise and does not provide any incentive to the private sector. This creates tremendous social costs for both the state and the individual. NGOs working in the field in Romania have been somewhat more successful but are still limited by their lack of funding and personnel and the idea of a combined system is as yet utopian in the circumstances in the country.

Estrategias gráficas arquitectónicas para el desarrollo de la capacidad espacial en población joven con síndrome de Down

La tesis conceptualiza la inteligencia espacial y su relación con las estrategias de dibujo de arquitectura para el desarrollo de las habilidades visoespaciales y orientación espacial de los jóvenes con síndrome de Down, utilizando un marco teórico seleccionado de la arquitectura, la neurociencia y la educación. Estas estrategias son diseñadas y adaptadas para innovar el ejercicio de la funcionalidad espacial en los jóvenes con discapacidad intelectual. Todo ello encaminado a proporcionar una mejor autonomía personal y la inclusión social, vinculada a su funcionalidad y la mejora de la percepción espacial de su entorno inmediato. Una de esas estrategias es el mapa o mapeo. Se selecciona el marco teórico entorno la experiencia de un estudio empírico de dibujo arquitectónico, llamado arquitecta, desarrollado con 25 jóvenes con discapacidad intelectual, y cuyos resultados proporcionan las observaciones finales de dos interesantes discusiones y las conclusiones de la tesis frente a dos hipótesis: Hipótesis 1_ La implementación de estrategias gráficas basadas en el dibujo arquitectónico es posible para la ejercitación de la capacidad de comprensión espacial en jóvenes con síndrome de Down. Hipótesis 2_ La capacidad de orientación espacial puede ser ejercitada mediante el mapeo en jóvenes con síndrome de Down. Ambos escenarios se demuestran con detalles metodológicos y de contenidos gráficos del estudio empírico que se valoran con nuevas pruebas gráficas adaptadas y diseñadas para ello. ABSTRACT The thesis conceptualizes spatial intelligence and its possible link with architectural drawing strategies for the development of visuospatial and spatial orientation abilities of young people with Down syndrome, using a selected theoretical frame of architecture, neuroscience and education. These strategies are designed and adapted as possible ways to innovate the exercise of the spatial functionality in youth with intellectual disabilities. All aimed to better personal autonomy and social inclusion, linked to their functionality and improved spatial awareness of their immediate environment. One such strategy is to map or mapping. This framework is selected around a practical research with a empirical study of architectural drawing, called ARQUITECTA, developed with 25 young people with intellectual disabilities, and its results provide the concluding remarks of two interesting discussions and the conclusions of the two hypotheses thesis: Hypothesis 1_The implementation of graphic strategies based on the architectural drawing is possible for exercing the capacity of spatial understanding in youth with Down syndrome. Hypothesis 2_The spatial capacity can be exercised by mapping in youth with Down syndrome. Both scenarios are demonstrated with methodological details and graphic contents of the empitical study that are valued with new adapted graphic tests.