ADAPTING ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IN ENGLISH CLASSES

Rafael Cabral PAULINO; Ademar Dias SANTOS

( Grantees PIBID-CAPES/UFPB/Letras- Ingls)
Supervisor: Prof. Dra. Anglica MAIA
INTRODUCTION

MATERIALS:
-Format of materials: lots of pictures; big font size

One of the aims of the English Teacher Education PIBID

project for elementary education at Universidade Federal
da Paraba is the production of adapted activities for
special needs students.

OBJECTIVE
- Present the work of 7 teachers in initial education who,
in the first semester of 2015, started developing activities
in the public elementary school attended by the PIBID
Letras-Ingls (UFPB) subproject in order to achieve
better performance and participation of special needs
students in English classes within the regular classroom.

PROCEDURES:
- Hands on activities (cutting, producing games)
- Providing a lot of support to students

METHODOLOGY
Fragments of teachers journals were analyzed in order to
understand how inclusion is understood and put into
practice in that school, and what changes are needed to
facilitate the learning process.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Curriculum adaptations (BRASIL, 1998; CARVALHO,
2012; DRAGO, SILVEIRA E BRAVO, 2013)
THEMES

- Adapting contents according to each students

interests

CONCLUSIONS
Adapting activities is essencial to facilitate
language learning for special needs
students; in our study, only after adaptations
were made, did students show some
progress in the proposed curriculum.

Materials used should be carefully prepared to

cater for the capacities to be developed by the
student, taking into consideration what he/she
needs, what he/she is able to do and what
might motivate that student to learn.

REFERENCES
BRASIL. Parmetros Curriculares Nacionais. Adaptaes Curriculares. Estratgias para a educao de alunos
com necessidades educacionais especiais. Braslia: MEC/SEF/SEESP, 1998.
CARVALHO, R. E. Escola inclusiva: a reorganizao do espao pedaggico.5 ed. Porto Alegre. Mediao,
2012.
DRAGO, R., SILVEIRA, L.V., BRAVO, D.O. Sndromes: planejando aes pedaggicas inclusivas. In: DRAGO,
Rogrio (Org.). Sndromes: conhecer, planejar e incluir. 2 ed. Rio de Janeiro. Wak Editora, 2013.