Transição do decreto-lei nº 319/91 para o 3/2008 no âmbito da educação especial

: um estudo de caso

Abstract

Nowadays, in Portugal, Special Education (EE) is legislated by the law nº3/2008. This diploma, which came into force in 7th January 2008, restructured the Special Education Policy in Portugal. The main changes, which appeared with this new paradigm, are related to the processes of references, evaluation and eligibility of the students who benefit from Special Education services. For this reason, the appearance of this policy made that, many children and young people no longer benefit from the Special Education services as they used to. Therefore, the main goal of this study consists of understanding the emerging changes with this new paradigm, specially in students who are no longer considered eligible for Special Education. In order to accomplish this goal, a case study was carried out, during which four participants were interviewed : the student, the mother, the class headmaster and the psychologist. The obtained results showed that it had occured, in fact, changes regarding the students eligibility and the rendered supports. According to the case in study, we realized that did not occured significant changes, due to the important involvement of the family in the young course, as well as, due to the school availability in responding to the student needs, in spite of, this same student, not being eligible to Special Education. For this reason, the most important conclusion of this study is that, the changes carried out with the implementation of a new legal framewrok, could be minimized, if there is a school availability in giving answers to the students needs and if these same answers could be, monitored, by the family, in a context of cooperation.

Date of Award	Jul 2012
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Elisa Veiga (Supervisor) & Lurdes Veríssimo (Supervisor)