Que inclusão é possível? Uma experiência na sala de recursos multifuncionais do município de Cuité, PB.

Abstract

The multi-functional resource classroom is a place for individual and specialized care for children with disabilities. lts creation has as main objective to provide the educational needs of them. In Brazil, especially in our region , inclusive education finds several obstacles to be effective in regular teaching. The lack of expert teachers can be considered the greatest problem. However, government policies of inclusion demand this kind of service be offered in ali schools. The inclusion of children with special needs requires significant changes in the structure and working of schools which implies in pedagogical training of teachers and family participation. This report is a research about the real possibilities of inclusion in our context. We intend to describe and analyze a school initiative from a multi-functional resource classroom. The resource classroom of the E. M. E. F. Celina de Lima Montenegro was established in 2009 and currently has 14 (fourteen) students enrolled. The dynamic of work developed in these two years is due to attempts and errors, reading, studies and a search, in a personal way, to guarantee the reception and cognitive development of these students. The classroom works similarly of a regular one when planning common activities for ali students. However, the difference is in the performance when the group allows itself to respect the spaces and times of each other. The climate of friendship and companionship prevails and results in visible progress in writing, reading, oral communication and sociability of students. These results can be observed in interviews took place with the students' families, in reports of school personnel and in individual reports registered during the school year. Some students attend regular classroom at school sporadically. They seem to prefer the

resources classroom. Therefore, on contrary to legislation, we believe that the multi- functional resource classroom can be used in different ways and in different contexts,

especially where the lack of experts in the area is commonly used as an excuse for not receiving special students.