Inclusão da Pessoa com Deficiência na Educação Profissional e Tecnológica

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the inclusion of people with disabilities in vocational and technological education, highlighting the set of laws that have enabled such inclusion and the advances and improvements that confirm the citizenship status of people with disabilities. It indicates which strategies should be used in the educational field for the development of a pedagogical practice committed to the personal and professional human development of people with disabilities entering vocational education, aiming to overcome the barriers and obstacles they face and which commonly reinforce prejudice and discrimination. It expresses that vocational education in the field of special education has developed products and services to enable the entry of people with disabilities, guaranteeing through Special Accessibility Centers that the right to vocational and technological education is realized with adequate support and assistive technologies. Bibliographic research was used in official and documentary sources, in addition to reflections developed during the implementation of the course's thematic units and experiences lived as a social worker at the Association of Parents and Friends of Exceptional Children of Senhor do Bonfim. It is expected that people with disabilities will have access to vocational and technological education committed to valuing and recognizing their status as citizens, through appropriate and inclusive pedagogical practices that guarantee autonomy, access to work, and improved quality of life.