Las relaciones interpersonales y la inclusión social de las personas con discapacidad visual en la Unidad Educativa Julius Doepfner de la Ciudad de Ambato

Abstract

This research aimed to promote the interpersonal relationships and social inclusion of children and youth with visual impairment of the Unidad Educativa Julius Doepfner of the city of Ambato, in recognition of the skills and potential they possess, as well as also to the respect of their condition of life and their development in society. Addressing the issue of social inclusion is to seek a social interrelation between people with disabilities and society, often create social stereotypes, marginalization and grief for this human group, which reduce their self-esteem to consider non-productive. The methodology used in the investigative process was correlational and within the latter research, techniques applied, such as the survey and the interview with the purpose of gathering information about interpersonal relationships and social inclusion of the investigated. With the results obtained, conclusions were drawn that determined the existing shortcomings in the development of skills and competences of labor inclusion for people with visual impairment in society, in addition to discrimination and lack of acceptance of these people; which is why it was proposed as a recommendation to carry out a manual of process for the socio-labor inclusion of people with visual impairment of the Unidad Educativa Julius Doepfner at the Cooperativa San Francisco Ltda., in the city of Ambato; the same one that will have as main objective to create a practical instrument that guides to the inhabitants of the city of Ambato on the acceptance and participation that people with visual disability in their environment and the necessity to develop actions of awareness that involve both the family as well as to the same person with disabilities, thus recognizing their rights, promoting equal opportunities in society and facilitating their accessibility.