Situación educativa de la población con discapacidad múltiple. Estudio de caso: síndrome de Down y baja visión en la educación regular ordinario

Abstract

Students with multiple disabilities in Ecuador represent a minimum percentage of the population, which is why they are isolated and neglected within the social and educational context. The biggest problem that can be evidenced in this group is that the people who are directly related to them, handle multiple disabilities separately and not as a whole, nor in an integral way. For this reason it was decided to carry out an investigation of the educational context of these people to get to know how their insertion into the educational field has been and how this situation is addressed. For this research, a mixed methodological approach based on qualitative, descriptive and phenomenological research was used. Within this analysis we worked with a sample of four people made up of a girl with Down syndrome, the girl's mother and two teachers. The results showed that there is ignorance in the educational part about how to work with people with multiple disabilities. In the practice of educational support, it is evident that there are great gaps in what is interdisciplinary teamwork. For this reason, it is important to generate a higher level of research to promote and favor inclusion within the educational field and their participation in society, considering the needs of the student, their dreams and aspirations that the student and their family want to achieve.