O atendimento educacional especializado para o aluno com deficiência mental

Abstract

The present article defines initially the special education support for the pupil with mental deficiency and needs its purposes. After that, it presents the main cognitivies characteristics of the pupil with mental deficiency in order to unmask the relevancy of this attendance for this pupil. Having for base the cognitive profile of the pupil with mental deficiency, the article standes out with the aid of some examples the basic principles of a proper educative intervention of this type of attendance. Finally it presents the expe rience lived deeply in elapsing of two years of development of the project of Continued Formation of Professors in Specialized Educational Attendance, offered in the modality of long-distance Education for the Federal University of the Ceará in partnership with the Secretariat of Special, Ministry of the Education of Brazil.