News
08/11/2018
The third edition of the Inclusion and Diversity Meeting of Bahiana it was a real lesson in accessibility and education. The event took place on October 25, at Campus Cabula da Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública and had the theme “Academic training and professional development”, with a Librarian interpreter and audio description equipment for people with disabilities. The opening of the meeting was held by Angélica Mendes, coordinator of the Psychopedagogical Care Center (NAPP), together with the psychopedagogists Josélia Abreu and Ana Paula Barros.
Angelica Mendes highlighted the importance of Bahiana promote another edition of the meeting and the positive impact of this on the social environment. “We want to provide true, real and inclusive education, and we have a long way to go, as we have a lot to learn. I feel that the importance of these meetings is the gathering of people from our institution and other institutions to dialogue and share an experience of knowledge. We are very big, when we are together, when we bring the world to us, we grow and the world grows”, he explains.
The first roundtable, "Inclusion process of people with disabilities in the professional and academic environment", was attended by the educator and specialist in Inclusive Education, Cristina de Araújo Reis, who has low vision and told her life story, the difficulties and overcoming it faced in the academic environment. Cristina expressed how people with disabilities need to occupy spaces to ensure a growth process. “The inclusion of the disabled is important, in the sense that they are participating in the university, whether as a student, professor or technician. It is essential, because this academic environment is a formative space”, he stated.