Resumo:
The research aims to analyze the professionalization policies of people with disabilities (PCD)
in the microregion of Itajubá. This analysis seeks to relate the importance of the work of
people with disabilities to regional development and discuss the role of Assistive
Technologies in professional education. The perceptions of representatives of the main
institutions that offer professional training to PCDs in the region are analyzed, as well as a
sample of students and alumni with disabilities in these schools. The research is exploratory,
with a qualitative approach and has field research as a means of investigation for which data
are collected through semi-structured interviews. The results show that professional education
has significant importance in the people with disabilities lives and generates benefits for the
whole society, but it is still a distant reality for most PCD. The results also present the
difficulties found for the effective inclusion in this teaching modality and indicate the
Assistive Technologies that are used and created in some of the institutions, as well as the
conditions that make their use effective in pedagogical practice.
