La scolarisation d'élèves dyslexiques sévères en classe ordinaire de collège: Lien entre adaptations pédagogiques, points de vue des enseignants et vécu de l'expérience scolaire des élèves

Abstract

Since Act 2005-102 of Februay 11 2005 on "equality of rights and chances for the disabled", the concept of school integration has evolved toward exclusion: the society can be a handicap and is the one having to adapt to the educational difficulties linked to a handicap. Within the school framework, it is essential that the teachers adapt their teaching practices in order to make up for the learning difficulties linked to the handicaps. Nevertheless, having a legal framework is not enough. Accepting those students, which are sometimes way below the normal requirements of the class, constitutes a real challenge as regards the various issues it raises (Belmont & Vérillon, 2003; Gombert & Roussey, 2007). Various questions on those gestures have to be asked like what are the nature and functions of the gestures meant to help the students? Do those gestures vary depending on the grade level taught (primary or secondary education)? Do we see a correlation between the way the teachers define the handicap, the school integration and dyslexia, and different types of gestures? Are some of them linked - more than others - to the students' positive feeling about integration? The research work herein sets out to answer those questions establishing a direct link between the three elements: (1) the nature of the gestures of help that primary and secondary school teachers set up in their classes when they welcomed students with a severe specific writing disorder, (2) the way the teachers speak of this handicap, integration and the specific disorder (dyslexia and dysgraphia), (3) the way the welcomed students live their experiences at school (Dubet & Martucelli, 1996).