The aim of this study was to set up and evaluate an intervention program, based on the manufacture of dolls, with children victims of violence, living in a shelter and presenting learning difficulties. The study aimed also ...

A deaf child's birth brings the family into a new reality. Such reality might unchain anxiety states or not, depending on the conception the family has on deafness and deaf people as well as on interaction quality and ...

The relation between learning disabilities and school subjects can be easily seen by lay people as well as by professionals and students in the area. Besides this relation, literature has shown that a child s family ...

Social skills have been considered essential in the process of social adjustment for all individuals whether or not they have special education needs. This research used direct (videotaping) and indirect (parent interviews, ...

Evaluation or teaching programs that emphasize the student s difficulties indicate to the educators which developmental areas are presenting deficits and where to invest for the recovering of these students. The current ...

The capability to use the language is essential for the acquisition of the symbolic systems and to improve the interpersonal relationships; his/her full development depends on the cognitive abilities and social adaptative ...

The disabled people s right to work, guaranteed by the Brazilian constitution, resulted in the effective inclusion of these people in the labor market. In order to ensure this right it was created compensatory benefits, ...

The debates on the production and dissemination of the knowledge in Special Education, produced essentially in the Graduate Programe in Education, Special Education and Psychology in Brazil, are increasing and, in general ...