Adaptaciones curriculares en las aulas de educación superior como base para la inclusión de estudiantes con discapacidad.

Abstract

The purpose of this investigation was to determine if the curricular adaptations in the higher education classrooms are the basis for an inclusive education of students with disabilities at Catholic University of Cuenca, in order to contribute to the efforts of the Ecuadorian educational system to make the rightof persons with disabilities effective, within a broad project of participatory strengthening of the public policy of equality in the higher education system. It is a research with a quantitative, non-experimental, interdisciplinary and descriptive approach; the pre-project was the beginning, followed by the construction of the conceptual basis and context references, based on the variables, then the field research was carried out, a survey technique was applied to disabled students attending to the university and their teachers, the information collected was analyzed inreference to the objectives set forth to elaborate conclusions and recommendations;finally, with the results, a proposal for curricular adaptations was structured based on the educational needs detected in order to strengthen the educational inclusion to guarantee access, permanence and maximum utilization of the academic activities of students with disabilities.