A Síndrome de Pfeiffer de tipo 1 e a Diabetes Mellitus tipo 1

Abstract

This Professional Activity Report originates from the inclusive teaching experience
of an adolescent with a pathology considered to be a rare disease (Pfeiffer's syndrome) in
his daily life from early childhood. In addition, the teenager had to learn to live with Type
1 Diabetes Mellitus. This syndrome is considered a rare disease because it occurs in a
small and infrequent minority of births in a population.
The social and school environment will be considered. It will also be followed by a
review of the bibliography on these two pathologies, which led to the enrolment of the
student in the educational special needs services. It will also reflect on the diagnosis with
which the student in question was enrolled in and which educational measures were
provided by law.
The case reflects the pathology of the student (FA) who attended the ninth year of
the third cycle of middle school, in a public school in the Autonomous Region of Madeira.
The presentation of the case will have annexes regarding the transcribed interviews
of the genetic pathologist of Pfeiffer's Syndrome, as well as FA’s specialized kindergarten
teacher, who was responsible for the domiciliary orientation and could elucidate on the
difficulties demonstrated by the student at the time. The intervention was started as part
of the Early Intervention program.
The present dissertation focuses on a special needs case in regular education,
demonstrating the necessary educational measures, as well as the supplement clinical and
/ or therapeutic procedures that the young student had to live with bearing his pathologies
in mind.
A review of the bibliography on Type 1 Pfeiffer's Syndrome and on Type I Diabetes
Mellitus will be done and the reasons why the student was eligible for special needs’
services will be clarified. These led to special educational measures that would allow
access and / or facilitate his learning among his equals. We will understand how and why
he was registered with Motor Coaching Disorder and what this disorder is, to understand
how this diagnosis is inserted in the performance of a teenager with Pfeiffer Syndrome
type 1.
Early intervention throughout his childhood by child's home guidance and the
reasons that lead to its referral by the regional health services will be analysed and
accounted for. To guide our task, we have called it: "Pfeiffer Syndrome type 1 and Diabetes Mellitus type I", knowing, a priori, that a student with these characteristics is
monitored, from an early age, by the health services, and forwarded to attend school, as
this is one of the best socialization and skills’ development contexts.
We hope that, throughout the dissertation, the implemented educational measures
and their adequate importance in the acquisition of the different skills by the student will
be mirrored; contributing to a wider knowledge and characteristics of Pfeiffer Syndrome
and how an adolescent can and should cope with a chronic pathology-like Diabetes-in his
everyday life knowing that, on some days, it becomes difficult to attend school.
The therapeutics of the Insulin application may not be forgotten and its
administration, either in school or at home, will be explained.
Finally, a small grid obtained from the interviews will be presented. It demonstrates
how the families of a holder of Pfeiffer Syndrome and / or Diabetes Mellitus’ life suffers
and how they can intervene, in the context of health and education.

Date of Award	30 Apr 2018
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Filomena Ermida Figueiredo Branco da Ponte (Supervisor)