Accessibility of a cadeirante in a public institution of higher education: routes and routines

• Main Authors: Rita de Cássia Silveira Cambruzzi, Maria da Piedade Resende da Costa, Fátima Elisabeth Denari
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) 2013-06-01
• Series: Revista Educação Especial
• Subjects: Accessibility; Speciale education; Physical disabilities.
• Online Access: http://cascavel.ufsm.br/revistas/ojs-2.2.2/index.php/educacaoespecial/article/view/4386
• ISSN: 1808-270X; 1984-686X

The physical disability is group is heterogeneous, even within a “category”, since that covers a diversity, because each has a mechanism to organize in spaces in which attends but all participate of the same challenges. However, due to the challenges encountered by persons with disabilities in establishing routes and routines within a University is that we have developed this research. We chose search access of physically disabled person in your external displacement of student housing to the classroom and the classroom until the Secretariat Department that frequents. Research whose goal is the identification and analysis of routes as its accessibility, on the campus of a public institution of higher education. The survey was submitted to the Ethics Committee that approves their implementation. Direct observations were performed, as well as records via photos and footage, which were authorized by the University. The information collected were analyzed qualitatively as the standards of the Brazilian Association of technical norms and the guiding document for the Regional Council of engineering and architecture, Rio Grande do Sul, titled: Roadmap survey. In data analysis, we see that there are needs for providing accessibility with safety and convenience, as well as establish mechanisms for the community library and the University restaurant part of living as part of the University community and also, in the exercise of their constitutional rights.