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The Brazilian
National Plan of Rights of Persons with Disabilities ‘Living without limits’ of 2011
is to be classified as
national legally binding regulatory policy
that seeks to involve and mobilize all federal organisms. It is implemented by
the Union in collaboration with State, Federal District, municipalities, and society.
Actions in basic education of Pilar 1 (under the responsibility of Ministry of Education) include: the implementation of
multifunctional resource classrooms, the promotion of accessibility in schools, teacher training for specialized
education, acquisition of accessible school buses (Path to School Programme) and the amplification of the
Continuous
Cash Benefit (
BPC) School Program, which aims to guarantee access and permanence within school of children and
adolescents with disabilities that live in poverty. In professional education, persons with disabilities have priority in
registration for the National Program for Access to Technical Education (PRONATEC). Accessibility centers are being
established at Federal Institutions for Higher Education and 20 courses in Sign Language were created.
Steps under Pilar 3 (Accessibility) include the creation of a National Program for Innovation in Assistive Technology, a
National Center of Reference in Assistive Technology, and an Access to Credit line for the acquisition of assistive
technology products
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The Plan also established an Interministerial Committee for Assistive Technology. The Plan was
funded by: I - Union budget allocations earmarked each year in the budgets of agencies and entities involved; II - funds
from the other participants organs; and III - other sources of funding (lower government levels and private entities).
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In May 2012, CONADE’s President described the Plan, “though young, as a positive milestone for the political landscape
of persons with disabilities at the federal level”. The Plan is an initiative that brings together various ministries, besides
the one responsible for education: from health, to housing, social welfare, labor and employment, among others, and
together actions, indirectly, promote conditions of access of people with disabilities in regular schools.
One good practice to take children and teenagers with disabilities out of invisibility is the program BPC (Continued
Benefit Payment) at school. Through the data of those with disabilities in very poor families, who get BPC, the public
agents actively search for children that are out of school, make an assessment of the families’ situation and provide the
means for them to go to school.
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Until 2014, the Plan had an estimated budget of USD 1,914,914,696 (R$ 7.6 bilhões), involved all federal agencies
(accession of the vast majority of States and more than 1,000 municipalities of all regions of the country),
In 2007, there were 100,574 children with disabilities enrolled in elementary regular education. In 2014, Brazil
achieved the mark of 309,801 children with disabilities attending elementary school.
Creation of 13,360 new multifunctional resource classrooms with equipment, furniture and pedagogic material to
meet specialized education needs and 14,999 schools received kits to upgrade rooms;
40,316 schools have received financial resources for improving their architectural accessibility and the purchase of
materials and assistive technology equipment;