A further step towards inclusion was taken by the city of Porto Alegre (RS). which announced the hiring of over 421 professionals to assist 3,000 students with intellectual disabilities enrolled in the municipal education network.
According to the Include+POA program, 27 psychologists will be incorporated into the public education network, in addition to 16 social workers, eight speech therapists, eight psychopedagogues, five coordinators and 357 Inclusive Education agents, as a support force for teachers in the classroom, in customer service Special.
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The forecast is that the multidisciplinary team will carry out joint work with the teaching staff, during after-hours – which corresponds to the shift outside normal hours, when extracurricular activities are developed, that is, those carried out after compulsory classes and established by law – in the Integration and Resources rooms (SIR), which serve as a reference in municipal schools in the capital gaucha.
According to the schedule, at the elementary school level, the educational agent will be responsible for serving ten students. In early childhood education, each professional will assist five children.
According to the municipal secretary of education of Porto Alegre (Smed), José Paulo da Rosa, “Include+POA is an important initiative to meet the demand for Special Education, which requires more attention and investment in qualifying the care of children and adolescents atypical. In addition to Inclusive Education agents, we will have a multidisciplinary team of professionals to support schools, which are already doing a great job, but lack human resources”.
To make it possible for professionals to come, a partnership was established with the third sector, covering four regions of the city, for a period of five years. According to the public call notice for civil society organizations interested in offering the specialized support service, announced on July 24th, the registration period closes on August. The expectation that the program will start until the second half of next September.
Another change resulting from the arrival of new professionals is that the current monitors are oriented and transferred, according to the case, in order to reinforce the attendance to early childhood education. Once the implementation of the “Include+POA” is concluded in the 98 own schools, Smed intends to invest in training for support in university schools, which also have a high demand for care Special.