Discapacidad y la inclusión académica en los estudiantes de la Universidad Técnica de Ambato

Abstract

The right to education and equal opportunities is essential in the life of all people, including people with disabilities, rights that have started from institutional and governmental policies. Equality of opportunities in education is substantial since it is essential several adaptations that facilitate the insertion and inclusion in all its forms as structural and methodological with the aim of facilitating learning and professional improvement of students. The subject of this research consists of two variables "Disability" and "Academic Inclusion", a study with the participation of 58 students and 20 teachers from different careers, in order to determine whether disability influences academic inclusion in students of the Technical University of Ambato. A mixed methodology approach (qualitative and quantitative) was established. The development of this research was based on a bibliographic and field review. With the same it was possible to determine the work developed by the University, directed to students with disabilities, among them structural adaptations and in a certain degree the methodological adaptations. According to the results acquired regarding the needs of teachers and students, the importance of receiving training on curricular adaptations and teaching management was known. According to all the needs of this population, a protocol model from Social Work on the care and accompaniment of students with disabilities at the Technical University of Ambato is proposed as a starting point, which describes the process of school intervention and family.