Inclusion of Disabled Students at the Federal University of Maranhão in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The current global outlook, created by the coronavirus pandemic, has brought an adverse situation for education in most countries. This exceptionality, consequently, also imposed new challenges to students with disabilities. Thus, the present study sought to identify the institutional actions developed by the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA) in order to guarantee the inclusion of the target audience of Special Education in the context of the Emergency Remote Education (ERE) adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected through a bibliographic survey, document analysis, and institutional actions published in the news on the UFMA Portal from March 2020 to July 2021. The findings of this study signal that, despite hundreds of acts developed in favor of non-presence education, few contained actions aimed at the inclusion of students with disabilities.