Encurtando caminhos na conquista das estrelas: buscando perspectivas e encontrando desafios

Abstract

This work has as its theme the educational inclusion of students with Down Syndrome, proposing the accomplishment of an analysis and reflection on how it happens to the reading and writing learning by the student with Down Syndrome in the classes of Portuguese Language. The research was done between August and November, through a case study of a student with Down Syndrome who studies in the eighth year of a municipal elementary school in the city of Dom Pedrito. The main purpose of this research is to find out how the inclusion of Down Syndrome students in Dom Pedrito's public schools is through interviews, classroom observations and questionnaires to the research subjects, teachers. To do so, two interviews were made with teachers from the initial years of the student, an interview with the current Portuguese Language teacher, besides observations of classes of this discipline, an interview with the student’s mother. The questionnaire was also applied to teachers of other disciplines, being the methodology used the case study, after the data analysis was performed according to Bardin (1977). It was sought to observe the strategies used by the teachers to promote the learning of the student with Down Syndrome. This research also addresses the difficulties encountered by teachers in carrying out their practices, as well as the main shortcomings in working with educational inclusion in the classroom. The research seeks to highlight the abilities and abilities that the Down Syndrome student possesses, although considering their limitations, in an attempt to understand how their teaching process happens, in addition to trying to show the need to reduce the distance between teacher and the student with special educational needs so that if the existing barriers in the school are eliminated.