Submitted by Luis Henrique da Silva null (lhsilva1@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-03-14T17:56:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE PARA DEPÓSITO.pdf: 2486311 bytes, checksum: 5ae0e4c5b85b66cf3a2b784f01eafb5f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-03-15T12:44:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_lh_dr_mar.pdf: 2486311 bytes, checksum: 5ae0e4c5b85b66cf3a2b784f01eafb5f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T12:44:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_lh_dr_mar.pdf: 2486311 bytes, checksum: 5ae0e4c5b85b66cf3a2b784f01eafb5f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-19 / Cette thèse est une contribution à la réfléxion sur la construction d'outils d'affrontement des difficultés par lesquelles passent les enseignants d'Histoire à la recherche d'enseigner les èléves hadicapés mentaux dans les contextes réguliers des écoles du Cicle II de I'Enseignement Fondamental. En partant des caractéristiques qui définissent l'enseignement d'Histoire dans le quotidien contemporain des salles de classes comme principale voie de compréhension des obstacles racontés par les enseignants pour la concrétisation de l'apprentissage (Silva, 2009), nous proposons la formation continue comme action de recherche pour le changement de la conception et de la fonction sociale de l'Histoire enseignée, deux éléments pricipaux que nous comprenons comme déterminants dans la conception de ce modèle et qui peuvent aider, peut-être, à changer le panorama décrit. Pour la travail sur les éléments et la confirmation ou non de l´hipothèse, deux enseignantes d´Histoire ont passé par le processus de l´Intervention Réfléxive (LEITE, 2003). Après les lectures que nous ler avons indiqué, les participants ont vu des extraits deleur classes et ont répondu une séquence de questions normalisées, dont l´intention était l´appropriation de l´enseignement d´histoire comme action intentionnelle, donnée pour la pratique pédagogique en trois niveaus (narration, association de base et pleine association) dont le but est de préserver la mémoire et l´appropriation de concepts pour lesquels l´apprenti doit développer sa capacité d´interprétations sur la réalité. Pour l´analyse des résultats obtenus à partir de la formation continue proposée, nous caracterisons la période précédente et ultérieure à l´intervention par l´intermédiaire du tournage de trente huit classes d´Histoire menées par le participantes. Les résultats obtenus après l´analyse quantitative et qualitative des données, démontrent qu´il y a eu un mouvement positif de constitution de proximité et de dialogue entre les élèves handicapés mentaux et les enseignantes participantes, avec l´expansion du nombre et de la qualitá des participations de ces élèves pendant les classes. La proposition de formation s´est démonstrée proactive dans la constitution des étapes initiales à une nouvelle perspective pour l´apprentissage de l´Histoire aux élèves handicapés mentaux, ce qui suggère que son application, accompagnée de la revisión de la formation initiale, peut constituer les bases d´un chemin vers l´éducation inclusive. / A presente tese é uma contribuição à reflexão sobre construção de ferramentas de enfrentamento das dificuldades porque passam professores de História na busca pelo ensino a alunos com deficiência intelectual em contextos regulares de escolarização no Ciclo II do Ensino Fundamental. Partindo das características que modelam o ensino de história no contemporâneo cotidiano da sala de aula, enquanto principal via de compreensão das barreiras narradas pelos professores para a concretização do aprendizado (Silva, 2009), propomos a formação continuada enquanto ação de busca pela mudança da concepção e da função social da história a ser ensinada, dois principais elementos que entendemos serem determinantes no delineamento deste modelo, e que revistos, podem, em tese, auxiliar na alteração do panorama descrito. Para o trabalho sobre esses elementos e a confirmação ou não da hipótese, duas professoras de História, passaram por processo de Intervenção Reflexiva (LEITE, 2003). Após realizarem as leituras que indicamos, as participantes assistiram trechos de suas próprias aulas e responderam a uma sequência de perguntas padronizadas, cuja intenção, era a apropriação do ensino da história enquanto ação intencional, dada pela prática pedagógica em três níveis (contação, associação básica e associação plena) cujo objetivo deve ser a preservação da memória e a apropriação de conceitos por meio dos quais o aprendiz deve desenvolver sua capacidade de interpretação e intervenção sobre a realidade. Para análise dos resultados alcançados a partir da formação continuada proposta, caracterizamos o período anterior e posterior à intervenção por meio da filmagem de 38 (trinta e oito) aulas de História, conduzidas pelas participantes. Os resultados, alcançados após análise quantitativa e qualitativa dos dados, demonstram que houve um movimento positivo de constituição de aproximação e diálogo entre os alunos com deficiência intelectual e as professoras participantes, com ampliação do número e da qualidade das participações desses alunos durante as aulas. A proposta de formação demonstrou-se proativa na constituição dos passos iniciais a uma nova perspectiva para o aprendizado de história aos alunos com deficiência intelectual, o que sugere que sua aplicação, acompanhada da revisão da formação inicial, pode constituir as bases de um caminho em direção à educação inclusiva. / This dissertation is a contribution to the reflection about the construction of ways of facing the difficulties which History teachers have to deal trying to develop an education for students with intellectual disabilities in conventional situations of schooling on the second part of Elementary school. Starting from the features that belong to the history of teaching on the contemporary routine education of the classroom as the primary way to understanding the obstacles narrated by the teachers to the achievement of learning (Silva, 2009), We proposed the continuing education as a seeking action for the change of the conception and the social function of history to be taught, two main elements which are considered to be crucial in the design of this model, and if they are revised, they can, in theory, help to change the overview described. Working on these elements and the confirmation of the case or not, two History teachers were part of a Reflexive Intervention process conducted by the researcher. After reading the texts assigned by the researcher, the participants watched excerpts of their own classes and answered a series of standardized questions, the purpose was the appropriation of the teaching of history as an intentional action, given by the pedagogical practice at three levels (telling, basic association and full association) whose goals should be the preservation of memory and appropriation of concepts by which the learner must develop the capacity of interpretation and intervention in the reality. From the analysisof the results achieved from the continuing training, we describe the period before and after the intervention by the shooting of 38 (thirty-eight) History classes, conducted by the participants. The results, achieved after quantitative and qualitative data analysis, show that there was a positive movement of the constitution of approach and dialogue between students with intellectual disabilities and the participating teachers, with an increase in the number and quality of participation of these students during the classes. The propose of the training attested to be proactive in the constitution of the initial steps in a new perspective to the learning of History to the students with intellectual disabilities, IT suggests that this application, complemented to the review of the initial training, may constitute the basis of the way for inclusive education.

Submitted by GLACIELMA DE FÁTIMA DA SILVA null (silvaglacielma@hotmail.com) on 2018-03-01T01:34:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Final- para submissão com ficha.pdf: 1037255 bytes, checksum: a249f56ddcabbc26e6b0ea8aa46d1a43 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Satie Tagara (satie@marilia.unesp.br) on 2018-03-01T14:17:32Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_gf_me_mar.pdf: 1037255 bytes, checksum: a249f56ddcabbc26e6b0ea8aa46d1a43 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-01T14:17:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_gf_me_mar.pdf: 1037255 bytes, checksum: a249f56ddcabbc26e6b0ea8aa46d1a43 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O objetivo desta pesquisa foi levantar a produção bibliográfica que trata do ensino de História para estudantes com deficiência intelectual. Nosso objetivo específico foi pesquisar se didáticas diferenciadas estão sendo propostas para o ensino de História e se estas poderiam favorecer a aprendizagem destes estudantes. A Teoria Histórico-Cultural forneceu-nos alguns conceitos para a reflexão sobre as possibilidades de aprendizagem deles e da importância da História, como disciplina escolar, para o desenvolvimento destes estudantes. Efetuamos o levantamento bibliográfico com a análise das produções acadêmicas em nível de mestrado e de doutorado na área do ensino de História para estudantes com deficiência intelectual, no período compreendido entre os anos de 2005 e 2016, produzidas no Brasil. A coleta de dados ocorreu no portal da Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações e no portal do Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia- Portal brasileiro de publicações científicas em acesso aberto. A análise das pesquisas ocorreu através da leitura dos títulos, das palavras-chave, dos resumos, dos objetivos e das metodologias de pesquisa. Os resultados apontaram a ocorrência de apenas duas pesquisas que abordavam o Ensino de História para o Estudante com Deficiência Intelectual. Em contrapartida, 143 trabalhos discutiam a Questão Étnico-Racial em um total de 809 trabalhos encontrados. Esses dados podem indicar que no ensino de História, a Inclusão e o trato da diversidade, como estão propostos na Resolução do CNE/CP 1, de 18 de fevereiro de 2002, ainda se referem apenas às populações historicamente marginalizadas e que a área ainda não reconheceu a necessidade de estabelecer didáticas diferenciadas, que ofereçam melhores possibilidades de aprendizagem aos estudantes com deficiência intelectual. Pesquisamos também trabalhos sobre Didáticas diferenciadas para o ensino de História no Ensino Fundamental II, com a análise de17 pesquisas. Na maioria destas, apresentou-se a preocupação em descrever a formação de comportamentos favoráveis à aprendizagem de História nos estudantes pesquisados, no entanto, a apropriação do conhecimento histórico não foi o objetivo de todos os trabalhos. Essa situação pode indicar que as grandes demandas que muitas vezes se impõe à educação, especificamente ao ensino de História, afastam-nos do objetivo principal deste, que deve ser organizar o processo de ensino e aprendizagem do conhecimento científico historicamente acumulado pela humanidade. A escassez de pesquisas referentes ao ensino de História para os estudantes com deficiência intelectual pode ser mais um indicativo preocupante, pois, ao não especificar as necessidades educativas especiais deste estudante, corremos o risco de torná-lo apenas mais um dos muitos excluídos da História brasileira. / The objective of this research was to raise the bibliographic production that deals with the teaching of History for students with intellectual disabilities. Our specific objective was to investigate whether differentiated didactics are being proposed for the teaching of History and if these could favor the learning of students with intellectual disabilities. The Historical-Cultural Theory provided some concepts for the reflection on the learning possibilities of students with intellectual disabilities and the importance of History, as a school discipline, for the development of these students. We carried out the bibliographic survey with the analysis of the academic productions at the master's and doctoral level in the area of History teaching for students with intellectual disabilities, in the period between 2005 and 2016, produced in Brazil. The data collection took place in the portal of the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and in the portal of the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology - Brazilian portal of scientific publications in open access. The analysis of the researches occurred through the reading of the titles, the keywords, the summaries, the objectives and the research methodologies. We came to a result: only 2 researches approached the History Teaching for the Student with Intellectual Deficiency. In contrast, 143 papers discussed the Ethnic-Racial Question in a total of 809 papers found. These data may indicate that in the teaching of History, Inclusion and the treatment of diversity, as proposed in CNE / CP 1 Resolution of February 18, 2002, they still refer only to historically marginalized populations and that the area has not recognized yet the need to establish differentiated didactics that offer better learning opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities. We also work on Differentiated Teaching for Teaching History in Primary Education II, with the analysis of 17 researches. In most of these, the concern was to describe the formation of behaviors favorable to the learning of History in the students studied, however, the appropriation of the historical knowledge was not the objective of all the works. This situation may indicate that the great demands that are often imposed on education, specifically on the teaching of History, distances us from the main objective of this, which must be to organize the teaching and learning process of scientific knowledge historically accumulated by humanity. The shortage of research concerning the teaching of History for students with intellectual disabilities may be a further worrying indicator, since, by not specifying, the special educational needs of this student, we take the risk of making him just one of the many excluded from Brazilian history.

Submitted by KARIN ELIZABETH KRUGER VIEIRA null (karinkruger12@gmail.com) on 2018-03-06T21:50:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO KARIN KRUGER.pdf: 12564701 bytes, checksum: 44d932989ca8b73a165cadb063f49ca3 (MD5) / Rejected by Milena Maria Rodrigues null (milena@fclar.unesp.br), reason: Karin, bom dia. Para aprovação no Repositório Institucional da UNESP, serão necessárias algumas correções na sua Dissertação. Solicitamos que realize uma nova submissão seguindo as orientações abaixo: - Corrigir ficha catalográfica. Título está diferente do restante do trabalho "sexualidade DOS deficientes intelectuais", possui duas fontes diferentes e algumas palavras cortadas; - É recomendado espaçamento simples entre linhas para o resumo e abstract e que esteja um em cada página; - Corrigir a paginação do seu trabalho, inclusive no sumário. As páginas pré-textuais devem ser contadas (com exceção da capa e ficha catalográfica), mas a numeração aparecerá somente a partir da introdução; Qualquer dúvida, seguir o roteiro de normalização disponível na página da Biblioteca: http://www.fclar.unesp.br/#!/biblioteca/normas-da-abnt/normalizacao/ Em caso de maiores dúvidas, entrar em contato com as bibliotecárias da Seção de Referência (Camila ou Elaine). Agradecemos a compreensão. on 2018-03-07T13:08:46Z (GMT) / Submitted by KARIN ELIZABETH KRUGER VIEIRA null (karinkruger12@gmail.com) on 2018-03-12T23:13:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO KARIN KRUGER.pdf: 12564701 bytes, checksum: 44d932989ca8b73a165cadb063f49ca3 (MD5) / Rejected by Milena Maria Rodrigues null (milena@fclar.unesp.br), reason: Karin, bom dia. Não foram realizadas as correções solicitadas anteriormente. Segue a solicitação novamente. Para aprovação no Repositório Institucional da UNESP, serão necessárias algumas correções na sua Dissertação. Solicitamos que realize uma nova submissão seguindo as orientações abaixo: - Corrigir ficha catalográfica. Título está diferente do restante do trabalho "sexualidade DOS deficientes intelectuais", possui duas fontes diferentes e algumas palavras cortadas; - É recomendado espaçamento simples entre linhas para o resumo e abstract e que esteja um em cada página; - Corrigir a paginação do seu trabalho, inclusive no sumário. As páginas pré-textuais devem ser contadas (com exceção da capa e ficha catalográfica), mas aparecerá número somente a partir da introdução. Qualquer dúvida, seguir o roteiro de normalização disponível na página da Biblioteca: http://www.fclar.unesp.br/#!/biblioteca/normas-da-abnt/normalizacao/ Em caso de maiores dúvidas, entrar em contato com as bibliotecárias da Seção de Referência (Camila ou Elaine). Agradecemos a compreensão. on 2018-03-13T13:14:24Z (GMT) / Submitted by KARIN ELIZABETH KRUGER VIEIRA null (karinkruger12@gmail.com) on 2018-03-13T17:10:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 final mandada para a unesp.pdf: 12994917 bytes, checksum: 40deeea793865f50221c31e80386cd29 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Milena Maria Rodrigues null (milena@fclar.unesp.br) on 2018-03-13T17:33:15Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 kruger_ke_me_arafcl.pdf: 12994917 bytes, checksum: 40deeea793865f50221c31e80386cd29 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-13T17:33:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 kruger_ke_me_arafcl.pdf: 12994917 bytes, checksum: 40deeea793865f50221c31e80386cd29 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-01-18 / A expressão da sexualidade deve ser entendida como um processo amplo, natural, inerente ao ser humano e próprio de cada fase do desenvolvimento. A sexualidade é presente em todas as faixas etárias, independente de padrões de normalidade e de necessidades especiais, sejam estas físicas, mentais ou sociais . Entretanto, as crianças e jovens com deficiência intelectual (DI) necessitam, muitas vezes, de recursos diferenciados para alcançar a compreensão esperada pelos educadores. É neste sentido que este trabalho pretende atuar, levando materiais didáticos concretos e palpáveis, com linguagem acessível e interessante, para que crianças e jovens portadores de DI possam compreender, expressar e dialogar livremente sobre sua sexualidade. Mesmo com literatura abordando a problemática da sexualidade do DI, muitos pais e educadores continuam manifestando dificuldades e receios quando se fala deste assunto. Tendo em vista esta dificuldade, a qual se apresenta para a sociedade como um todo, acredita-se na importância da participação de todas as pessoas envolvidas na convivência do jovem portador de DI. Espera-se que este trabalho possa intervir positivamente na formação e capacitação dos educadores, buscando uma postura ética que valorize a pessoa em sua dimensão total. Levantou-se dados sobre os conhecimentos e as ações adotadas por educadores sobre o tema “sexualidade”, com atenção prioritária aos alunos que possuem algum tipo de (DI), regularmente matriculados em escola pública da cidade de Araraquara, SP – Brasil, através de entrevistas com a equipe gestora da Escola e as professoras do primeiro ano do ensino fundamental. Foram realizadas atividades com os alunos de primeiro ano do ensino fundamental, para compreender suas capacidades e posteriormente foi elaborado e aplicado um jogo didático com as crianças. Além disso, este jogo será doado à Instituição de Ensino, visando à orientação, aprimoramento e auxílio na formação de professores que trabalham com a educação de crianças e jovens portadores de DI. Para compreender a visão a respeito da sexualidade dos deficientes foi analisado os discursos, por meio da ótica foucaultiana na leitura das entrevistas realizadas com professores e alunos e nos registros da observação participativa durante as atividades com o material didático produzido. / The expression of sexuality must be understood as a broad process, natural, inherent to the human being, and proper to each phase of development. Sexuality is present in all age groups, regardless of normality patterns and special needs, whether physical, mental or social. However, children and young people with intellectual disabilities often need differentiated resources to achieve the understanding expected by educators. It is in this sense that this work intends to act, taking concrete and palpable didactic materials, with accessible and interesting language, so that children and young people with ID can understand, express and freely dialogue about their sexuality. Even if the literature addresses the issue of ID sexuality, many parents and educators continue to express difficulties and fears when discussing this issue. Given that this difficulty presents itself to society as a whole, and it is believed that the participation of all the people involved in the coexistence of young people with ID, it is expected that this work can intervene positively in the formation and Educators, seeking an ethical stance that values the person in its total dimension. Data on the knowledge and actions adopted by educators on "sexuality", with priority attention to students with some type of Intellectual Disability (DI), regularly enrolled in a public school in the city of Araraquara, SP, Brazil, Through interviews with the management team of the School and the teachers of the first year of elementary school. Activities were carried out with the first-year students of elementary school, to understand their abilities and later the didactic game was elaborated and applied with the children. In addition, this game will be donated to the Teaching Institution, aiming at orientation, retraining and assistance in the training of teachers who work with the education of children and young people with ID. In order to understand the vision about the sexuality of the disabled, the discourse was analyzed through the Foucaultian view through the interview of teachers and students through participatory observation during activities with the didactic material produced.

Submitted by PATRÍCIA TANGANELLI LARA (patriciatanganelli@gmail.com) on 2017-08-20T18:26:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Patrícia Tanganelli Lara.pdf: 2046839 bytes, checksum: b67c641f4b0c88cb60b65a1d24dd4697 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-08-23T20:00:36Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 lara_pt_dr_mar.pdf: 2046839 bytes, checksum: b67c641f4b0c88cb60b65a1d24dd4697 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-23T20:00:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 lara_pt_dr_mar.pdf: 2046839 bytes, checksum: b67c641f4b0c88cb60b65a1d24dd4697 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Para atuarem no apoio pedagógico aos estudantes com deficiência intelectual, professores da rede pública municipal de São Paulo, tem empreendido ações na busca de práticas pedagógicas inclusivas, que considerem a singularidade desse público específico. Em 2006 a Secretaria de Educação do Município de São Paulo, considerando a trajetória de inclusão de estudantes com deficiência intelectual e o interesse de seus professores na busca de novos conhecimentos na área da Educação Especial para o sucesso na inclusão desse púbico, comunicou por meio de Diário Oficial a abertura de curso de pós-graduação Lato Sensu: “Formação dos Professores em Educação Especial nas Áreas das Deficiências Auditiva, Física, Mental e Visual”, a ser ministrado pela Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, campus Marília - Unesp/ Marília, para a formação dos professores em exercício para o atendimento e apoio aos estudantes com deficiência inseridos nas salas de aula comum. As políticas públicas inclusivas propostas pela Secretaria Municipal de Educação corroboram com as indicações do Ministério da Educação e com a importância da formação do professor para o atendimento do estudante com deficiência. Esta pesquisa teve o objetivo de analisar essa política de formação dos professores em educação especial na área da Deficiência Intelectual do Município de São Paulo envolvendo análise documental relativa à proposta curricular do referido curso e levantamento geral de informações junto aos professores que atuam na educação especial participantes do referido curso mediante resposta a questionário. O contexto espanhol foi trazido para o estudo como possibilidade de enriquecer as discussões sobre políticas públicas para a formação de professores, permitindo identificar desafios comuns em termos de práticas pedagógicas e expectativas docentes. Fundamentada nos estudos de Gimeno Sacristán e na Teoria Histórico-Cultural esta pesquisa focalizou alguns indicadores tais como: conceitos básicos, subsídios para elaborar e executar planos de trabalho, produzir e organizar recursos pedagógicos e de acessibilidade, objetivos do atendimento aos estudantes com deficiência intelectual, modificações posteriores na atuação e aspectos de avaliação. Verificou-se, segundo a perspectiva dos professores, que uma sólida formação continuada auxilia na mudança de práticas pedagógicas sedimentadas historicamente nas escolas comuns para práticas novas e recursos práticos que se aprendem como formas operativas que devem fundamentar uma educação inclusiva. / To act in pedagogical support to students with intellectual disabilities, teachers from the public municipal de São Paulo, has taken actions in the pursuit of pedagogical practices inclusive, they consider the uniqueness of this specific audience. In 2006 the Department of Education of the City of São Paulo, considering the trajectory of the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities and the interests of their teachers in search of new knowledge in the field of Special Education for the success of the inclusion of this public, communicated through Official opening of post-graduate course Sensu Lato: "Training for teachers in special education in the areas of weaknesses impairment, physical, mental and Visual", to be administered by Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Campus Marília - Unesp/ Marília, for the training of teachers in exercise for the care and support for students with disabilities placed in classrooms. The public policies inclusive proposed by the Municipal Secretariat of Education corroborate with the signs of the Ministry of Education and the importance of teacher education for the care of a student with a disability. This research aimed to analyze this policy of training for teachers in special education in the area of intellectual disability in the city of São Paulo, involving analysis of documents relating to the curricular proposal from that course and general survey of information along to teachers who work in special education participants of that course by responding to the questionnaire. The context spanish was brought to the study as a possibility to enrich the discussions about public policies for the training of teachers, allowing you to identify common challenges in terms of pedagogical practices and expectations faculty. Based on studies of Gimeno Sacristán and in theory historic-cultural this research focused on some indicators such as: basic concepts, subsidies to develop and implement plans of work, produce and organize educational resources and accessibility, goals of care for students with intellectual disabilities, subsequent changes in the actions and aspects of assessment. It was found, according to the perspective of teachers, which a solid training assists in changing pedagogical practices sedimentadas historically in regular schools for new practices and practical resources that if they learn how forms that operative must substantiate an inclusive education.

The purpose of this study was to explore the transition experience of three individuals with intellectual disabilities, members of their family, their former transition program coordinator, and members of their support network including current employers or support service providers. This qualitative study used Bronfenbrenner’s (1977) ecological model and Kohler’s (1996) Taxonomy for Transition to frame three case studies designed to capture the transition experience of young adults with disabilities who exited a university-based, school district funded, transition program. Using Bronfenbrenner’s (1977) ecological perspective, which focused on a behavior or interaction of people across multiple environments, the aim was to interview individuals from the micro, meso, and exo levels within the individuals’ systems of support. The transition experience took place outside the bounds of a school and involved a broad network of support that ranged from close nuclear ties between the individual with disabilities and their family members to broader social ties between the individual with disabilities and their employer or support service provider. A total of nineteen interviews were conducted for this study. Each interview lasted between twenty to ninety minutes in length. Individuals were asked to participate in an interview to respond to pre-scripted, open-ended questions based around Kohler’s (1996) five domains of transition within the Transition Taxonomy. The nineteen interviews were transcribed, coded and organized around themes linked to the five domains of transition: student-focused planning, student development, program structure, family involvement and interagency collaboration. In addition to the five domains of transition, five additional themes were common across members of the three case studies. These additional themes included: • It Takes a Strong Interconnected Network • Recognizing Narrative is Critical • Inclusion is Important to the Community • A Knowledgeable Transition Coordinator is Integral • Life is Comprised of a Series of Transitions The transition from high school to post-school life includes a focus on employment and independent living. That transition is unique and personal, but regardless of the person, a network of support is required to ensure success. The three young adults who were interviewed and around whom the case studies were developed exemplify the importance of maintaining a strong support network as you plan for and implement the transition from school to post-secondary life. Each young adult has utilized ties with family and members of their community to secure paid employment, maintain their social circles, and expand their level of independence.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertação - Raclene Ataide de Faria - 2014.pdf: 3536475 bytes, checksum: a2699bd331cd8f4c36f5fa6d879228bf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The 20th century was characterized by triggering debates about human rights and citizenship. The offset of the claims of the macrstructural plan for the identity-oriented for the emergence of new social movements and the mobilization for the rights of persons with disabilities to live in segregated and not discriminatory environments. These mobilizations is the paradigm of inclusive education, subject and object of a few conventions, international agreements, of "review" of the Brazilian educational legislation, the extension of theoretical productions and re/organization of school classes. This process intensified in the second half of the year 1990, has caused significant changes in life and social relations of persons with disabilities, since questions and forge the breakup of dichotomous division between special education and regular education and allows a wider social coexistence. With the goal of realizing the auto representações that adolescents with intellectual disabilities have of themselves, formed a research group with students of cycle III in municipal schools in Goiânia. The choice of the subject of the research is the result of the contradiction that exists between the emergence of inclusive paradigm and the process of gene silencing of people with intellectual disabilities, given the difficulty of their autonomous institutional organization and belittling their ability to formulate opinions and critical analysis. The group consists of twenty people, most of the male students from 11 schools located in various regions of the capital. The data collection instruments were depth interviews, life story fundamentally and analysis of school documents. The main theoretical framework is formed, among others, by Alonso, Berger and Luckmann, Bourdieu, Goffman, Habermas, Mantoan, Mazzotta, Moscovici, Silva, Taylor and Bogdan, also, by official documents about the Brazilian school education and documents drawn from international conventions and agreements on education and the rights of people with intellectual disabilities. The bibliographical research showed that the representations are constructed socially, expressed in the political sphere of discourse-semantic mode, linked to the experiences of social coexistence and sociability of the subjects in the social institutions and historically anchored. Empirical research has shown that the Group of people with intellectual disabilities, regarding the physical characteristics, behavioral, health and personal development, is, in itself, a very heterogeneous group. Despite personal differences, the autorepresentações make explicit a positive self-image of themselves as a student in regular public school in Goiânia; the desire to keep your education process in schools and regular classes; the commitment to present a good social image of itself, taking advantage of postures in/discipline to give visibility to a positive image in relation to its peers; the importance of colleagues, teachers, the conversations and all forms of sociality made possible at school for personal well-being; the appreciation for the school and for the friendships; the posture of victimhood and ambiguous situation not to be in a process where conflicts the various representations about the person with intellectual disabilities, their rights, possibilities and potential. / O século XX foi caracterizado pelo desencadeamento de debates sobre os direitos humanos e de cidadania. Do deslocamento das reivindicações do plano macroestrutural para as de cunho identitário há a emergência dos novos movimentos sociais e a mobilização em prol dos direitos das pessoas com deficiência de viverem em ambientes não segregados e discriminatórios. Dessas mobilizações surge o paradigma da educação inclusiva, tema e objeto de algumas convenções, de acordos internacionais, de “revisão” da legislação educacional brasileira, da ampliação de produções teóricas e da re/organização das classes escolares. Esse processo, intensificado na segunda metade dos anos de 1990, tem provocado mudanças significativas na vida e nas relações sociais de pessoas com deficiência, uma vez que questiona e forja o rompimento da divisão dicotômica entre educação especial e educação regular e possibilita uma convivência social mais ampla. Com o objetivo de perceber as autorepresentações que adolescentes com deficiência intelectual têm de si, formou-se um agrupamento de pesquisa com estudantes de ciclo III em escolas municipais em Goiânia. A escolha dos sujeitos da pesquisa é fruto da contradição existente entre a emergência do paradigma inclusivo e o processo de silenciamento das pessoas com deficiência intelectual, dada a dificuldade de sua organização institucional autônoma e do menosprezo a sua capacidade de formular opiniões e análises críticas. O agrupamento é formado por vinte pessoas, a maior parte do sexo masculino, estudantes de onze escolas localizadas em várias regiões da capital. Os instrumentos de coleta de dados foram entrevistas de profundidade, história de vida fundamentalmente e análise dos documentos escolares. O referencial teórico principal é formado, dentre outros, por Alonso, Berger e Luckmann, Bourdieu, Goffman, Habermas, Mantoan, Mazzotta, Moscovici, Silva, Taylor e Bogdan, também, por documentos oficiais sobre a educação escolar brasileira e documentos elaborados a partir de acordos e convenções internacionais sobre a escolarização e os direitos de pessoas com deficiência intelectual. A pesquisa bibliográfica evidenciou que as representações são construídas socialmente, expressas na esfera política de modo discursivo-semântico, vinculadas às experiências de convivência social e de sociabilidade dos sujeitos nas instituições sociais e ancoradas historicamente. A pesquisa empírica revelou que o grupo de pessoas com deficiência intelectual, no que tange as características físicas, comportamentais, de saúde e de desenvolvimento pessoal, é, em si, um grupo bastante heterogêneo. Apesar das diferenças pessoais, as auto-representações explicitam uma autoimagem positiva de si como estudante na escola pública regular em Goiânia; o desejo de manter o seu processo de escolarização em escolas e classes regulares; o empenho em apresentar uma boa imagem social de si, valendose de posturas de in/disciplina para dar visibilidade a uma imagem positiva em relação a seus pares; a importância de colegas, professoras/es, das conversas e de todas as formas de sociabilidade possibilitadas na escola para o bem-estar pessoal; o apreço pela escola e pelas amizades; a postura de não vitimização e a situação ambígua de estar em um processo onde conflitam as várias representações sobre a pessoa com deficiência intelectual, seus direitos, possibilidades e potencialidades.

In a criminal investigation, witnesses may get asked by the police to provide a perpetrator’s description or to generate a composite image of the perpetrator’s face. Due to their elevated vulnerability to victimisation people with a learning disability (LD) may be more likely than other members of the wider community to find themselves in such situations. Research regarding face recognition and description abilities of this group has been to some extent neglected in the eyewitness research literature. Consequently, guidance for practitioners on how to effectively generate facial composite images with LD witnesses is limited. The current research addresses this issue, by investigating basic and applied face recognition and description abilities in individuals with mild learning disabilities (mLD) during a series of experimental studies. Moreover, potential facilitating measures are introduced and assessed. Five studies were conducted during the course of this thesis. In the first study a survey was designed to collect information on currently used composite systems by UK law enforcement agencies and how operators perceive and treat witnesses with LD. The survey findings confirmed the initial assumption that individuals with LD may indeed find themselves in the situation of having to describe a perpetrator’s face to an investigative officer. Furthermore, the results emphasised the lack of guidance available to operators on how to best meet the special needs of this particular witness population. Study 2 investigated basic face recognition and description abilities in people with mLD and revealed that overall they performed at a lower level than the non-LD controls. Despite this finding, mLD individuals as a group performed above chance levels and they displayed variability in performance depending on the introduced measures. iv Studies 3 and 5 investigated these abilities in a more applied setting, namely during the construction of facial composites with contemporary facial composite systems. Study 3 revealed that composites generated with the E-FIT system, a featural system, were considerably poorer than those created by their non-LD counterparts. Studies 4 and 5 attempted to improve mLD individuals’ performance by applying visual prompts and by using a more holistic facial composite system, i.e. EvoFIT. There was little evidence of the former being advantageous for witnesses with mLD, however, EvoFIT significantly enhanced composite construction abilities in the mLD participants. Finally, the practical and theoretical implications of the main findings are discussed.

In both Western societies and academic research, the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities is many times ignored or suppressed, often based on the assumption that people with intellectual disabilities are especially vulnerable and in need of protection. This study analyses the discourse produced by a Swedish sexual education material addressed to people with intellectual disabilities, that challenges this suppression by focusing on the role of the body and pleasure. The study shows that the alternative discourse addresses people with intellectual disabilities as being self-responsible for experiencing a pleasurable sexuality and is build upon two intertwined lines of argumentation: the importance of consent and the en couragement to embrace vulnerability. This thesis calls for more research that includes the sexual experiences and perspectives of people with intellectual disabilities to get a deeper understanding of the discourse’s development.

The focus of this dissertation is local government expenditure, where growth, quality, and equality is in the center of attention Essay 1: Sports and Local Growth in Sweden: Is a Sports Team Good for Local Economic Growth? The purpose of Essay 1 is to analyzethe effect of professional sports on the municipality’s tax base. I find no indications of a positive effect on the growth rate of per capita income from having a team in the top series. Essay 2: Equality of Quality of Day Activity Service Programs in Sweden. In this Essay we investigates the equality of the day activity service programs for people with intellectual disabilities provided by local governments in Sweden. The findings are that despite the Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments intended to secure equality in living conditions, the quality of day activity service programs seems to be dependent on the local government’s tax base as well as the political preferences. In Essay 3: Analysis of Cost and Quality Indicators of Day Activity Service Programs in Sweden, we analyze the distribution of observable quality indicators for daily activity service programs. We find that municipalities that conduct regular user surveys find reasons to spend more per user on average. Additionally, the probability for transitions to employment at a regular workplace is higher in municipalities where as a routine a review is made of whether each participant can be offered an internship or work. The objective of Essay 4: The Composition of Local Government Expenditure and Growth: Empirical Evidence from Sweden, is to analyze whether there is a possibility of enhancing the average income growth rate at the local level by redistributing expenditure between main functional areas of local governments, while keeping the budget restriction fixed. We find that devoting large shares of expenditure on areas that increase labor supply, such as child care are positively related to growth in income. Additionally we find that spending areas previously categorized as productive can have a non-linier relationship with growth.

Background: Research has shown that mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) can be effective in the treatment and management of a variety of psychological and physical health conditions. Whilst under researched, there is growing evidence to support the use of MBIs with individuals with intellectual disabilities (IDs) who may require adaptation to existing MBIs as a result of cognitive or other impairments. Method: This research dossier describes the development of an 8-week mindfulness group for adults with IDs. Two mindfulness groups were delivered by community practitioners. Participants completed self-report measures of anxiety and depression pre-intervention, postintervention and at follow-up. Participants were interviewed for their experience of the group and assessed for their ability to understand and engage with the basic concepts of mindfulness. Results: Participants reported a decrease in anxiety post-intervention which continued to decrease at follow-up five weeks after the final session of the mindfulness group. Selfreported depression also decreased post-intervention, however there was a slight increase at follow-up although this remained lower than baseline. The decrease in self-reported depression from pre-intervention to post-intervention was statistically significant. Participants were able to engage with, understand, enjoy and benefit from the mindfulness group and appreciated having the opportunity to meet with similar people with similar experiences. Conclusion: Results indicate that the mindfulness group had some positive effect on selfreported anxiety and depression states. Participant feedback coupled with the researcher’s own reflections offer direction for further adaptations that could be made to the mindfulness group and support the need for further research in this area.