A aplicabilidade da Classificação Internacional de Funcionalidade, Incapacidade e Saúde

Abstract

The aplication of the International Classification of Functioning for Children and Youth (ICF-CY) reference frame in the evaluation of children and young people attending to their eligibility for Special Education Needs (SEN) was introduced by the Decree Law N.º 3/2008, January 7. Its implementation is wrapped in a long discussion that persists among experts in this area, which highlights serious concerns about the implementations model, its adequacy, usefulness and effectiveness.The lack of consensus, as well as the argumentative framework that has been fueling the discussion, reveal and justify the need to carry out studies and research, that enable to know the practices and problems experienced by multidisciplinary teams involved in the process of assessing children and young people with SEN, in order to bring clarity to the debate and responses that may be conclusive.Revealed the nature and timeliness of this issue we conducted a study with a practical component of research for the purpose we established as the benchmark the utility and applicability of the ICF-CY in the process of assessment intervention of children and students with SEN. From the analyze and discussion of the obtained results it seems to be possible to advance some conclusions, that we believe, point to the need to implement some measures within the operational framework and reference ICF-CY, as well as the need to develop new studies that lead to the deepening of this theme.

Date of Award	2011
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Célia Ribeiro (Supervisor) & Cristina Simões (Co-Supervisor)