O aluno com cegueira. As atividades de vida diária na família e na escola

Throughout the years, children and youth’s education with special educational needs, in which are included the blindness students, has acquired several features resulting from social, political, economic, religious and scientific factors, but nowadays in school, inclusion is the most important direction. In contemporary society, the greatest value is the development of autonomous and independent citizens, contributing to the building of a fairer community. Based on this frame of references, school and family face new challenges through the demand of an interactive and collaborative workload. Through a qualitative study, we intend to know the importance that parents and/or delegates of education and special education teachers give to Daily Life Activities in the development of blind students without other problems associated. We also pretend to know how the school and family work together in the building of that personal autonomy. Although the target population of this study are four blind children/youths, we interviewed their parents and/or delegates of education and special education teachers. The techniques used to gather the data were a semi-structured interview and observation/verification tables. From the conclusions of this study, we can refer that, despite the great importance given to Daily Life Activities, this area is rarely worked on at school and at home, especially the use of specific techniques, therefore there isn’t an effective collaboration in its implementation.