Reflexões teóricas sobre o processo de inclusão dos portadores de Síndrome de Down no ensino regular

Abstract

Throughout the history of education in Brazil, the mentally handicapped, has always been kept anonymous, hiding them from society, who felt uncomfortable in your present. The school is responsible for selecting the "normal", using as criteria of normality models created for her. Thus the education of disabled children, were the subject of contempt and shame, both in school and in society, where they were forced to study in separate rooms, especially children with Down syndrome. With the changes in the Constitution and the New LDB those with special educational needs have their rights recognized in legislation and educational setting appears in the Brazilian school inclusion, opening the way for the proper treatment of all children. The inclusion of students with disabilities into classes represents a historic breakthrough in relation to the integration movement that presupposes some kind of training the poor to enable their participation in the common education. The inclusive school posits a restructuring of the education system, in order to get the school to become open to differences and competent to work with all students, regardless of race, class, gender or personal characteristics.