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- A avaliação das necessidades de apoio no desenvolvimento de planos individuais de transiçãoPublication . Santos, Miguel; Sanches-Ferreira, Manuela; Silveira-Maia, Mónica; Martins, Susana; Alves, Sílvia; Lopes-dos-Santos, PedroUma sociedade inclusiva assenta na garantia e defesa dos direitos humanos e é caracterizada pela participação de todos os cidadãos nas várias dimensões e contextos da vida. Neste ensaio, demonstraremos como a avaliação das necessidades de apoio dos jovens com incapacidade intelectual, e especificamente a avaliação através da Supports Intensity Scale (SIS - Escala de Intensidade de Apoios), constitui um passo essencial no desenvolvimento de Planos Individuais de Transição numa perspetiva centrada na pessoa, que pragmatiza os princípios de uma sociedade inclusiva.
- Consultancy In Action: Implementing The ICF-CY Within The New Practices In Special Education Needs Assessment In ArmeniaPublication . Sanches-Ferreira, Manuela; Silveira-Maia, Mónica; Alves, Sílvia; Poghosyan, MeriOver the last decade, with the help of UNICEF, international organizations and the civil society, the Armenian government has been developing efforts to reform the education system and promote inclusive education by expanding the network of inclusive schools and increasing budgetary allocations to children with special education needs. As a next major step the Ministry of Education plans to gradually transform special schools into resources centres supporting inclusive education.
- Eligibility for Special Education Services: Six Years of the ICF-CY ImplementationPublication . Sanches-Ferreira, Manuela; Silveira-Maia, Mónica; Alves, SílviaThe debate around students? eligibility for special education services remains actual due to its preponderance for determining the resources allocation and services distribution (Burke & Ruedel, 2008; Hollenweger, 2008). This is also the case of Portugal that in 2008 enacted a special education law, which prescribed a new approach for defining the target group for special education services based on the use of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, version for children and youth, ICF-CY (2007), as a common language and framework to guide the assessment and eligibility determination processes. Special education services were defined for students with: "significant limitations in terms of activity and participation in one or more areas of life, due to structural and functional permanent changes resulting in continued difficulties in communication, learning, mobility, autonomy, interpersonal relationships and social participation" (Paragraph 1 of Article 1st, Chapter I). In line with this definition, DL 3/2008 introduced the principle that documentation of functioning profiles of students ? reflecting the ICF terminology and framework ? should base eligibility determination.
- Evaluating implementation of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health in Portugal's special education lawPublication . Sanches-Ferreira, Manuela; Simeonsson, Rune J.; Silveira-Maia, Mónica; Alves, SílviaThis paper reports the results of a national two-year project, commissioned by the Portuguese Ministry of Education, to investigate the implementation of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) under Decree-Law 3/2008. The Decree-Law also introduced the principle that the documentation of students' functioning profiles should be the basis for eligibility decision-making – replacing the need of a diagnosis. Of specific interest was the study of the ICF implementation in the assessment, eligibility and intervention processes of students in need of specialised supports. To that end, the study was based on a document analysis of case records of 214 students. The analysis of functioning profiles showed that the ICF use promoted a functional approach in students' assessment. In addition, the use of the ICF contributed to the differentiation of eligible and non-eligible students based on their functioning profiles and addressed the most suitable educational interventions within the Individualised Education Plans.
- How individualised are the Individualised Education Programmes (IEPs): an analysis of the contents and quality of the IEPs goalsPublication . Sanches-Ferreira, Manuela; Lopes-dos-Santos, Pedro; Alves, Sílvia; Santos, Miguel; Silveira-Maia, MónicaIt is widely accepted that students with additional support needs benefit substantially from the implementation of individualised, intentional and planned interventions (e.g. Pretti-Frontczak and Bricker 2000; Wolery 2000). These interventions are usu- ally reported in the Individualised Education Programme (IEP) that constitutes the educational map for students with disabilities (Ruble et al. 2010) and contributes to ‘bridge (…) “what is” and “what can be”’ in students’ life (Thompson et al. 2009, 138). These geographical metaphors are pertinent because they suggest a parallel between a journey and the three central dimensions of an IEP (Bateman and Herr 2006; Lee-Tarver 2006): (a) a specific departure point – the child’s present level of performance; (b) a personal destination – measurable goals; (c) an individualised route and vehicle – needed supports and services. Individualisation, therefore, has been described as the nuclear factor for intervention effectiveness (Wolery 2000).
- Implementation of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in Portuguese Special Education Policy and PracticePublication . Sanches-Ferreira, Manuela; Simeonsson, Rune J.; Alves, Sílvia; Silveira-Maia, MónicaIn January 2008 with the introduction of the Decree-L aw n.º3/2008, Portugal became the first country implementing the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, ICF (WHO, 2001) as a framework to be obligatorily used in special education system. This policy was responsible for the introduction of substantial changes among which the ICF implementation to support the assessment and eligibility processes represented the major challenge for educational professionals.
- Improving the Use of International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health to Document Holistic Functioning Profiles: a Teacher Training ProgramPublication . Sanches-Ferreira, Manuela; Santos, Pedro Lopes dos; Alves, Sílvia; Alves, Cidália FerreiraContemporary approaches within the special education field contend that outlining assessment and intervention processes for children with additional needs requires a functional perspective on their needs rather than a developmental point of view about their delays (Florian et al., 2006; Simeonsson, Sauer-Lee, Granlund, & Björk-Åkesson, 2010).
- Portugal's special education law: implementing the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health in policy and practicePublication . Sanches-Ferreira, Manuela; Simeonsson, Rune J; Silveira-Maia, Mónica; Alves, Sílvia; Tavares, Ana; Pinheiro, SaraThe International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) was introduced in Portuguese education law as the compulsory system to guide eligibility policy and practice in special education. This paper describes the implementation of the ICF and its utility in the assessment process and eligibility determination of students for special education.
- Projecto da Avaliação Externa da Implementação do Decreto-Lei n.º 3/2008Publication . Simeonsson, Rune J.; Sanches-Ferreira, Manuela; Silveira-Maia, Mónica; Pinheiro, Sara; Tavares, Ana; Alves, SílviaO Decreto-Lei n.º 3/2008 introduz mudanças substantivas no modo de entender e responder aos alunos com deficiência e incapacidade, propondo mais um passo na direcção de um pensamento e de uma pragmática inclusiva. Um elemento central deste articulado foi a substituição da necessidade de um diagnóstico médico ou psicológico na elegibilidade de alunos para a Educação Especial, pela descrição de um perfil de funcionalidade baseado numa avaliação biopsicossocial mediada pela utilização da Classificação Internacional de Funcionalidade, Incapacidade e Saúde (CIF). Este projecto teve como objectivo a avaliação da implementação do Decreto-Lei n.º 3/2008, incidindo sobre quatro grandes questões: (1) utilização da CIF como referencial na descrição da funcionalidade dos alunos elegíveis e não elegíveis; (2) procedimentos de referenciação, de avaliação especializada e de elaboração do relatório técnico-pedagógico; (3) medidas educativas seleccionadas para os alunos elegíveis e não elegíveis; (4) recursos e apoios disponibilizados pela escola (disposições finais).
- The use of the ICF-CY for describing dynamic functioning profiles: outcomes of a teacher training programme applied in PortugalPublication . Sanches-Ferreira, Manuela; Lopes-dos-Santos, Pedro; Alves, Sílvia; Silveira-Maia, MónicaIn keeping with the international trend towards inclusive education and a contextsensitive approach to students’ needs, Portugal enacted, in 2008, a law that stipulated the use of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for Children and Youth (ICF-CY) to inform special needs assessment and eligibility procedures. The necessity of conceptual and practical adjustments in the use of the ICF-CY brings up the need for training programmes that can properly prepare regular and special education teachers. This paper examines the impact of an in-service training for teachers on using the ICF-CY for describing the functioning profiles of students supported by special education services. A 25-hour in-service training was developed focusing on the biopsychosocial and person–environment fit perspectives of the ICF-CY framework. To evaluate the effects of training, 236 descriptions of functioning profiles – produced before and after the in-service training – were compared. Results showed that the model adopted in the in-service teacher training course contributed to the enhancement of teachers’ skills in describing more comprehensive functioning profiles of students, reflecting a dynamic perspective among the ICF-CY components. Specifically, teachers were more able to describe the impact of the environment on student’s functioning, identifying facilitators and barriers that may inform the definition of strategies in Individualized Education Programs.