Retos de la inclusión académica de personas con discapacidad en una universidad pública Colombiana

Abstract

The results of a study aimed to identify the academic and institutional facilities that the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia gives to disabled people. The research is of exploratory type and a follows a descriptive non-experimental methodology. A semi-structured interview and the questionnaire were used as tools for collecting information. Disabled students, professors, and executives were interviewed to identify policies and plans about inclusion. This was supplemented with analysis of documents such as the general statute and some educative projects. The results proved institutional commitment to fulfill external regulations relating to inclusion of disabled people. However, the lack of training of teachers is notorious about the handling of students with special educational needs, as well as the illiteracy of the academic community about rights and possibilities of integral formation of disabled people at the university.