Trajetórias de pessoas com deficiência sensorial: da educação básica à superior

Abstract

The present research focused on the education of people with disabilities, who completed Brazilian public higher education. Its general objective was: to analyze the school trajectory of people with disabilities who completed Brazilian public higher education; and for specific objectives: 1. To know the potential and difficulties of training for people with disabilities who have completed Brazilian public higher education; 2.Identify possible supports and supports that university students with disabilities received in the educational, family, clinical scope, among others, in their academic path. This is a field study, using the Oral Life History method, of a descriptive character, carried out with methodological procedures based on the qualitative approach. It had as instruments of data collection a questionnaire for survey of social indicators; and a semi-structured interview script. Two people with disabilities from different regions of Brazil participated in the research, one from the Southeast and the other from the North, who were previously contacted and selected. The data were analyzed and divided into categories a) basic education: early childhood education, elementary school, high school; b) higher education: selection process, undergraduate / graduate courses; and possible supports and supports in the pedagogical, family, clinical scope, among others identified during these stages and levels. The results of the research demonstrated how challenging the schooling process is for people with disabilities and that, thinking only about access to school, is not enough, because the question of permanence goes hand in hand.