Teaching Chemistry to students with special educational needs. A viability study of adaptations proposed to improve the current inclusion program for SEN students in the Faculty of Chemistry

Abstract

In an increasingly diverse society, equal opportunities are the order of the day. Moreover, our university model must be adapted to the international convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, signed by our country and, therefore, converted into law. Consequently, denying “reasonable” adaptations in university education would constitute discrimination on the basis of disability and would violate the law. This works aims to propose adaptations to improve the inclusion of students with learning difficulties at university, and more specifically, it studies the feasibility of these adaptations to be applied in the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Barcelona. The necessity of adapting university studies without altering their content requires an exhaustive analysis of all adaptations presented in previous studies. This study explores the possibility of applying these adaptations from the non-alteration of the academic level to the opinion of the teachers, focusing on the needs of the students involved through a direct relationship with them. Based on the results obtained, the intention is to improve the current Inclusion Program of the Faculty of Chemistry of the UB, as well as to establish a starting point to continue in the study and constant transformation that defends the right of everyone, who is capable enough, to be able to obtain a university degree.