Assistive Technology and Inclusive Special Education: the State of Art in Brazil's graduates

• Autor(a) principal: Melo, Samuel Pires
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Leonam Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Educação Especial (UFSM)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/educacaoespecial/article/view/64421
• topic: Inclusive Special Education; Assistive Technology; state of art.; Educación especial inclusiva; Tecnología de asistencia; Estado del arte.; Educação Especial Inclusiva; Tecnologia Assistiva; Estado da arte.

The study seeks to offer, from the perspective of Postgraduate Studies in Brazil, a discussion of the theses and dissertations defended between 2015 and 2019 on the uses of Assistive Technology in Special Inclusive Education. A state-of-the-art study was carried out, by surveying the works located in the bank of theses and dissertations of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel. These were investigated through graph theory and descending hierarchical classification, using the software IRAMUTEQ and EXCEL. The results point to the existence of 42 studies, where their authors have been researching in the area of Special Education since their formation in Higher Education, with the intersection of Assistive Technology more recently in the teaching-learning process, mainly with concerns about the way the resources of Assistive Technology can assist of Special Inclusive Education. It was observed in this line of analysis that there is involvement of students in activities, although active participation in their learning process depended on teacher training to work with these resources, producing one of the greatest challenges. Such an investigation, therefore, links the results of the research with the academic trajectory of the authors, thus enabling an overview of what has been produced on these themes and an ordering that allows us to perceive the transformations in this field.