Post by account_disabled on Mar 11, 2024 23:15:06 GMT -5
Educational spaces specialized in people with disabilities generate social exclusion, rights activists for this population warned.
Therefore, if the State's obligation to promote inclusive education is included in the educational reform currently being discussed by Congress, this would become a decisive step for the total integration of this sector, they considered.
Agustín de Pavia, lawyer at the Escuela Libre de France Mobile Number List Derecho and professor at the Universidad Panamericana, who since birth was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, stated that once the constitutional changes take effect, educational institutes will have to make structural, but also educational modifications. to be able to integrate these students.
Housing for people with disabilities
In De Pavia's experience, it is very common for private or public schools to suggest that relatives of children with disabilities enroll them in institutes specialized in their needs, but this is not the best.
«All the jobs I have had, I have had because I have been in an inclusive environment, they know me in government, they know me in academia, many lawyers know me and they hire me themselves. If I had developed in a special education with only people with disabilities, well, if we have a problem, it will affect us all and no one has the tools to overcome it.
"If you are in an inclusive world, I may have a problem, but I am in a more open world that can give me more support than my own group," he explained within the framework of the launch of the newsletter "Me Too", focused on research and dissemination of information about disability and inclusion in Mexico.
One of the main arguments for not including children with disabilities in basic education schools is that they do not have the appropriate infrastructure, but with the educational reform they will have to make changes.
The journalist Katia D'Artigues, president and co-founder of “Yo also”, points out that although there are still many barriers to inclusion in the academic, work and social life of people with disabilities, the information about their life and needs is a powerful tool for integration.
Therefore, if the State's obligation to promote inclusive education is included in the educational reform currently being discussed by Congress, this would become a decisive step for the total integration of this sector, they considered.
Agustín de Pavia, lawyer at the Escuela Libre de France Mobile Number List Derecho and professor at the Universidad Panamericana, who since birth was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, stated that once the constitutional changes take effect, educational institutes will have to make structural, but also educational modifications. to be able to integrate these students.
Housing for people with disabilities
In De Pavia's experience, it is very common for private or public schools to suggest that relatives of children with disabilities enroll them in institutes specialized in their needs, but this is not the best.
«All the jobs I have had, I have had because I have been in an inclusive environment, they know me in government, they know me in academia, many lawyers know me and they hire me themselves. If I had developed in a special education with only people with disabilities, well, if we have a problem, it will affect us all and no one has the tools to overcome it.
"If you are in an inclusive world, I may have a problem, but I am in a more open world that can give me more support than my own group," he explained within the framework of the launch of the newsletter "Me Too", focused on research and dissemination of information about disability and inclusion in Mexico.
One of the main arguments for not including children with disabilities in basic education schools is that they do not have the appropriate infrastructure, but with the educational reform they will have to make changes.
The journalist Katia D'Artigues, president and co-founder of “Yo also”, points out that although there are still many barriers to inclusion in the academic, work and social life of people with disabilities, the information about their life and needs is a powerful tool for integration.