Construindo pontes no IFPA: ações de acessibilidade para pessoas com deficiência

Abstract

This work deals with the accessibility offered in Professional and Technological Education for People with disabilities. Aiming to characterize the actions contained in the IFPA Institutional Development Plan for 2019-2023 to promote accessibility on the 18 campuses of this institute. And based on the results, develop and implement an educational product that contributes to the context of developing the accessibility proposed by the institute. We sought to analyze them through legislation relating to the rights of People with Disabilities and the concepts and authors discussed during the Professional Master's Program in Network - ProfEPT, following the line of Educational Practices in Professional and Technological Education (EPT), from which this research is part of. The results demonstrated relevance and representativeness of the proposed actions in all accessibility categories based on Brazilian legislation on inclusion. However, there is a need for greater interaction with the concepts and practices related to the inclusive perspective of human rights, as well as dissemination and encouragement to the school community, including people with disabilities, in involvement with the accessibility promoted by the institute, and also the mapping, on most campuses, people with disabilities as customers of these accessibility. It is concluded that the IFPA, from an emancipatory perspective and in confluence with policies related to social inclusion, still does not present a fully adequate context for serving people with disabilities, but has been seeking to facilitate them, through accessibility actions, their access and retention in professional and technological education.