Perspectiva dos docentes acerca da transição para a vida pós-escolar de alunos com deficiência mental

Abstract

The transition to Post – School Life is an orientation process initiated in the schools to provide young people with special educational needs, the skills that are essential to daily life so that they can fully integrate society, individually, socially and professionally. Schooling has been heading towards improvement in the method and the solutions given to students in the process of transition to life after school, implementing better practices that contribute to the development of a set of personal and social skills that are essential to this transition. So as to describe, analyze and reflect upon the way the afore mentioned process’ difficulties are overcome with mentally handicapped students in seven public schools, in the seventh, eighth and ninth school years, in the municipality of Viseu, we developed a research of a quantifying and descriptive nature that sought to observe and describe a specific process, considering the views of management bodies of the schools and their specialized teachers. A questionnaire was used for gathering data. Respondents were seven representatives by the Management entities and seven special education teachers. Results show that there are some constraints towards effectiveness of the transitional process. Effectiveness is only possible with the active involvement of all the participants (students, parents, teachers / school and community / public facilities) investing on the backup, teaching and training of these youngsters. Issues like the lack of specific legislation, community collaboration and the adjustment of all the participants are some of the obstacles that arise.

Date of Award	3 Jan 2012
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Célia Ribeiro (Supervisor) & Anabela Carvalho (Co-Supervisor)