Making a right a reality: an experience of includingstudents with cognitive disabilities in aneducational institution

Abstract

Inclusion in schools has been a topic of great interest because the statistics demonstrate a low level of educational inclusion. Therefore, this study aims to understand the subjective experiences of students with Mild Cognitive Disability, parents, peers and teachers to the process of school inclusion in the Educational Institution from the city of Neiva. It is a qualitative ethnographic study, used participant observation and the free drawing in 27 people in 6 groups (government agencies, support groups, teachers, parents, students with disabilities and peers). The results demonstrate that Governmental Entities are responsible for ensuring the right to education and school inclusion from the normativity recognizing that there are difficulties in implementing these programs. The other people involved in the process need to be very commitment to inclusion that can be carried out in an environment of equality that allows the construction of life project. Students with Cognitive Disabilities are feeling good because they have the opportunity to start a process of socialization with peers which have accepted them, welcomed and established equality treatment.