Realidade da sala de recursos utilizada no aprendizado de crianças com deficiência: percepção dos pais e professores

Abstract

In view of the pulsating need to welcome children with disabilities into the regular education network with quality, the Ministry of Education created the “Program for the Implementation of Multifunctional Resource Rooms”, in order to support them, ensuring their social, cognitive and intellectual development. The activity plan is developed in a unitary way, looking for attractiveness and interests, employing technology as one of the instruments that, in addition to being part of the current situation and being present in the educational context, presents itself as a fun and ludic way, making learning light and pleasant. In view of the existing need to meet the needs of children in the family environment, it’s essential to get some professional help and support from social organizations and the State in order to solve them or at least minimize them. Objective: To analyze whether technological and psychological supports interfere positively in the educational development of children with disabilities. Method: Six teachers specialized in special education and 14 parents of children with disabilities who attend the resource classroom participated in the research. The instruments used were a questionnaire for educators, composed by 13 questions; two questionnaires for parents, one sociodemographic questionnaire structured with 6 questions and the other with 12 questions about technology and psychological support. Results: This research demonstrated the technological precariousness that schools face in the referred resource classrooms and highlighted the importance of multidisciplinary monitoring of parents and teachers, especially by Psychology. It also presented, due to the result of the weakness of the instruments made available and applied, the wide difficulties faced in learning, teaching and in the relationships between parents, teachers and disabled children. Conclusion: There is still a long way to go to ensure that the guidelines for mental health care are executed in a satisfactory manner, and the necessary educational resources for the proper development of children with disabilities are implemented. Thus, it is necessary to issue an alert aiming at social mobilization so that the Public Power can fulfill its duty, within the scope of municipal and state education. It is suggested that other similar studies are conducted as a subside.