From Human Rights to Public Policies; From Special Education to Inclusive Education

In the field of education and health, it should be noted that school inclusion is a universally guaranteed citizen's right, with the Salamanca Declaration standing out as a milestone in this process.

which emphasizes inclusive education, following conventions and human rights, aimed at children and adolescents, presenting here, the main ones, as a merit of basic knowledge of the subject. The document

was so named because it was a World Conference on Special Education in Salamanca, in 1994, which aimed to restructure policy reform according to inclusion, stating that all

child has a fundamental right to education, that students are unique people with learning processes,

individual interests and abilities. The document also reports that it is necessary for schools to implement educational programs in order to take into account the vast diversity of such characteristics and needs, and that those with special educational needs must have access to regular schools, with a child-centered pedagogy, able to meet such needs, so these schools will achieve effective means of

combating discriminatory attitudes, the objective of this document is to create a more welcoming and inclusive society and to achieve, in fact, education for all. Furthermore, “such schools provide an effective education to the majority of children and improve the efficiency and ultimately the cost effectiveness of the entire system.

educational (...)” (UN, 2010, p. 78).