Secretaria Estadual De Educação - Goiânia, goiás, brasil

My name is Dalson Borges Gomes I'm currently working as executive superintendent playing the role of assistant secretary. At that time, we had access to a report that affirmed that 70% of our cities did not have any student with disabilities enrolled in their classes. There were people, children, youth and adults with disabilities existed, but they didn't study. Only 30% of districts had students enrolled. So it was a big challenge. My name is Romeu Sasaki and, currently I am consultant in social inclusion. Until 1998, the state of Goiás had been living for nearly 50 years, a certain practice in regards to special schools. We divided the first 4 years in 4 steps. The first step was the awareness step. In the second year, we started the implementation in the third year, we continued with the implementation and, in the last year, we did the evaluation. It is very important to make clear that from 1999 until now Goiás has invested heavily in a network to support inclusion. There is a special needs education service (SNES) educator who looks after the student after regular school hours. My name is Lorena Resende de Carvalho I am manager of the special education area in the State Secretary of Education. The idea is to offer the SNES or special needs education service preferably to the mainstream schools. Currently, there are 1.095 schools in our network. Approximately 50% of our schools have these rooms with multi-function capabilities. The SNES is also available in the SNESCs or special needs education service centres that is why they have this name. We also have support educators working in the classroom together with the head educators assisting them in their lessons and focusing not only on the students with disabilities or general development disorder but on all students in that room. There was a period between 2002 and 2004 in which the state of Goiás was considered a reference state in regards to inclusive education. And the point was exactly this network that supports inclusion. My name is Olinda Abadia Cabral de Melo. I am coordinator at NAEM (Multiprofessional and Educational Advising Centre). NAEM's objectives are very clear. It is all about the support to the students of the state school system who receive good support nowadays especially due to the polls. So, this is our objective. There are also the itinerancy which we find essential. And the training are very important to us. The school itinerancy process carried out by this team are very important in terms of guiding the school and their professionals families, referring students to other services that are not only educational student assessment formulating specialized opinions. Today, we are around 50 professionals at the NAEM. There are psychologists, speech therapists social workers, educational psychologists and educators. My name is Zilma Rodrigues Neto. At the moment, I am working in the general coordination of the hospital educational service centre. The hospital educational service centre is an effective teaching aid performed by educators of the Secretary of Education within hospitals so that children during their process of hospitalization treatment of illness rehabilitation or convalescence continue studying, so they do not lose the school year. Often, when they leave the hospital and go back home they are not able to go back to the school and then the family requests an educator who can teach at their place. During these 13 years of educational activity within the hospital we have served over 25,000 people. We think that we needed to reach the head educators it would make all the difference. But we have many limits and we are not able to achieve this as we would like to. So, we have a strategy: we bring the inclusion mediators close to us. My name is Rogério Cavalcante de Morais. I am facilitator at the Metropolitan Secretariat of the state of Goiás. He is the bridge that connects the Secretariat and the Secretary of Education the Secretariat and the school the Secretariat and the parents and, most importantly the Secretariat and the students. This is our focus this is our audience. They come over every month for the training and he spread out this knowledge here in his secretariat. In the secretary, we have constantly discussed that the general policies those policies aimed to the general public, are important. But specialized policies must not be overlooked. The issue is that inclusive education policy has to be in the agenda. I usually say that the state does not normally, actit only reacts. The state government only adds public policies in their agenda if the society speaks up.