O NAPNE e o acesso, permanência e êxito do discente com surdez, emsua formação profissional no IFRN

Abstract

This work mapped the actions of the Support Center for People with Specific Needs (NAPNE) for the access, permanence and success of students with deafness at the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN). In order to achieve this objective, a bibliographical review on Professional Education and Inclusive Education in Brazil was carried out to show difficulties and progress of individuals with deafness, regarding access policies. Research was also carried out based on the dissertations available on the PPGEP (Postgraduate Program in Professional Education) portal on the TEC NEP/NAPNE program (Education, Technology and Professionalization Program for People with Special Educational Needs), in order to understand what is the function of IFRN's NAPNE, regarding its implementation and inclusive educational support for students with SEN (Special Educational Needs). Thus, this research describes the history of the nucleus; understands the institution’s process of training deaf students; as well as, it presents the performance process of IFRN's NAPNE, based on the perception of the coordinators of each Campus. To obtain such responses, a questionnaire via email was sent to the coordinators of the twenty-two centers. Although not all coordinators responded to the questionnaire sent, collecting this data was extremely important to show that both the pedagogical team and deaf students go through challenges during the school year, such as: school dropout, lack of family support, demotivation; shortage and/or turnover of professional Libras Interpreter; and low completion rate for deaf people. The main results, which highlighted the work of NAPNE, are the motivation of coordinators to contribute to the learning of students with Special Educational Needs; promote Libras courses; adapt activities and assessments; in addition to teaching a deaf student to read and write. It uses the textual interpretative method to understand and map the collected data.This study allowed us to know the number and specificity of some deaf people enrolled in the institution; which professionals make up the NAPNE pedagogical team, but also made it possible to learn about the core's actions that best provided support and guidance to both deaf students and their teachers.