This Monday (6), the TV Brazil A disputes at 11 pm an episode of the program Paths of the report whose theme is “a school for everyone”. The attraction shows the challenges and advances in education for people with disabilities in Brazil. 
According to Census 2022 of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the country has 14.4 million inhabitants with some kind of disability, about 7% of the population. However, the research data point to profound inequality for this portion of society: Almost two thirds (63.1%) of people with disabilities over 25 years have not completed elementary school. In addition, the illiteracy rate (21.3%) is three times higher than the goal set in the National Education Plan.
For Meire Cavalcante, from the Ibero-American network Redsei/OEI, the perspective on people with disabilities in the school context has changed in recent years. “Rather, disability was understood as something proper to the subject. From the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, 2006, a new concept is established, which removes the focus of the person. The focus becomes society,” he explains.
THE Paths of the report He also heard the report of parents of children with disabilities to understand the main challenges related to education. This is the case of educator Fabiana Elisa dos Santos, mother of Victor, eight. To the program, she says that getting a school for her son, who has cerebral palsy, has become a challenge.
“Two schools that I thought was very good disappointed me. In one of them, I was told that the classroom had 20 students, but there was no one to stay with him, because Victor was not going,” he laments.
The couple Karla Cunha and André Nogueira also share the same fight. Felipe’s 14 -year -old parents say that although no school has explicitly denied enrollment, reception has always been problematic.
“Since literacy started, we realized that schools couldn’t handle it, or how to integrate it into the class. Because it is very quiet, it’s easy to go unnoticed. And that’s very bad, because it’s being excluded, right?”, The father says.
Inclusive Education
According to the Ministry of Education, currently, 92% of children and adolescents with disabilities are enrolled in the education system, the vast majority of them, more than 85%, in the public network. The secretary of the Secretariat of Continuing Education, Literacy of Youth and Adults, Diversity and Inclusion (Secadi), Zara Figueiredo, points out: “This shows us that policies, programs and actions designed from 2008 were very successful in bringing this audience into schools, to classes, the common classes of the public school”.
The lyric singer Giovanna Maira lost her vision before she turned 2. Despite the challenges, he managed to go to graduation and graduate in music.
“Braille score didn’t exist, or I had to have it done. So I wrote my hand,” he recalls.
Giovanna recognizes the advances: “Nowadays things are much better. I am very proud of what I planted. But I want this new generation not to give up and fight for the next, so that everything is getting better and better.”
