Considerations about the possible contributions of occupational therapy in the school inclusion process

Abstract

The pourpose of this article is to present and to argue about the possibilities of the Occupational Therapy actions inside the inserction process of handicapped children in regular school, starting from an epistemological and ethical position about the concepts that interpose the real speaches and practices of school inclusion. First of all, the authors argue about integration, inclusion and exclusion concepts, and their relationship with the praxis of school inserction, and then, they present some reflections about the schools necessities in front of inclusion of handicapped children. Finaly, they describe the possible Occupational Therapy contributions in this field of knowledge, as well as the argument of those possibilities.