PUBLIC POLICIES ON SPECIAL EDUCATION IN BRAZIL: A BRIEF HISTORY

Abstract

This article analyzes Brazilian legislation regarding Inclusive Education and the work of the State and Brazilian society in order to enable students with disabilities to attend school. This is a historical study of documents and legislation, making brief reference to the first legislation and the gradual and evolutionary process of standardizing Inclusive Education in Brazil from the 1960s to the present day, where the involvement of the State and social movements in order to ensure access and permanence of students with special needs in regular schools and their subsequent integration into the social environment in which they are inserted. The debate referred to here turns to the legal precepts where the legal standards are presented that deal with the inclusive process from its beginning until today, which aims to provide specialized and quality educational services that need to be consolidated, reaching the target audience of Special Education. In this sense, we examined documents and bibliographies that deal with the subject, with the aim of understanding the trajectory of the process of establishing Inclusive Education in Brazil, through bibliographic and documentary research, followed by the analysis of the results of this research that led us to understand the path taken to effect inclusion in the country.