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BATISTA, Cecília Guarnieri. Visually impaired children: How to aid the process of school inclusion?. Temas psicol. [online]. 1998, vol.6, n.3, pp. 217-229. ISSN 1413-389X.

The process of school inclusion in visually impaired children is discussed and a project (Prodevi) aiming the prepation and following up of this process is presented. The "school groups"that are the main strategy of this project comprise: a) joint work of blind and low vision children; b) a schedule of school-like activities with objectives in the áreas of cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional and psychomotor development; c) systematic observation of the sessions and semestral individual assessments. The development of the project in the period 1995-1998 (1^st semester) is described and some results are presented (more attention and persistence in the tasks, more comprehension and respect to rules, beginning of literacy, acquisition of the concept of number, more self-confidence and sociability, more respect to limits). The following aspects are discussed: a) identifícation of factors responsible for the observed changes; and b) difficulties of the inclusion of visually impaired children in regular school

Palabras clave : visual impairment; school inclusion of visually impaired children; intervention on the development of visually impaired children.

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