Disability, social stigma and child abuse

Abstract

The look that has been made to disability from the social has varied considerably in favor of people who have this condition of development and their social inclusion, however, segregationist and discriminatory conceptions prevail that, in addition to constituting a violation of rights, are the cause of acts of violence towards these people. In the child population living in a condition of disability, the social stigma that still prevails over this expression of development is one of the main causes of child abuse in contexts as significant to children's lives as is the family. The school, from its social mandate, must develop actions that contribute to the prevention of child abuse in all its manifestations with participatory actions that lead to the eradication of any act that threatens the well-being of children from a preventive and developer approach. An educational strategy aimed at families of children with disabilities is presented in this work, elaborated from the diagnosis made and in correspondence with the needs identified in the relatives with whom we worked. A field investigation was carried out, in which methods such as observation and surveys were used. The measurement of the variables was carried out through a standardized questionnaire, which was initially subjected to validity and reliability analyses. The collected information was entered into a database created in SPSS 26.0 statistical processing software.