Acts of Reading Early Childhood Special Education: political realignment and specialized educational services

Abstract

This article aims to
produce a reading about the offer of Special Education in Early Childhood
Education and its modes of organization in the context of the Municipal School Network of Santa Maria (RME/SM). As the guiding questions, we asked how does political realignment in the educational field focus on the provision of Special Education in Early Childhood Education? How does the reading of a specific context, as RME/SM, indicate such changes in the provisions of Special Education in Early Childhood Education? For analysis purposes, information from the Basic Education Census was used. As possible readings, we highlight the need to increase the enrollment of Special Education students in Early Childhood Education and the provision of specialized services to these children, as well as to have a closer look at the processes of identification and diagnosis and at the filling the School Census.