A Educação dos Estudantes com Deficiência em Tempos de Pandemia de Covid-19

A Invisibilidade dos Invisíveis

Abstract

This article aims to understand how remote teaching has been happening for students with disabilities in schools in the municipal school system of Fortaleza. This is a qualitative study whose subjects were teachers of specialized educational care in the municipal network of Fortaleza accompanying students with disabilities in the Multifunctional Resource Rooms. The data was produced from a structured questionnaire in Google Forms and sent through the WhatsApp messaging app. For data analysis, we opted for discursive textual analysis. The results pointed to the scarcity of guidelines and technological resources provided by the Municipal Department of Education, characterizing the teaching, in this period, by the use of personal digital resources of teachers (internet, computers, chat apps) and application of activities defined by them as flexible, differentiated and playful, available by the school to the parents of the students. The absence of technological resources, educational platforms and internet for students and teachers, restricted educational interactions to conversation applications that proved insufficient to ensure participation and access to the curriculum by students with disabilities. The study showed that the problems experienced in the inclusion of students with disabilities in the common school they remained and expanded during the remote teaching offered in the pandemic period of Covid-19.