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- A Comunicação entre professores do 2º ciclo, 3º ciclo e Ensino secundário e jovens com Síndrome de DownPublication . Gouveia, Sandra Maria dos Santos Alves Duarte; Sousa, Célia Maria Adão de Oliveira Aguiar deOs indivíduos com Síndrome de Down (SD) detêm um perfil característico de linguagem e comunicação, caracterizado por pontos fortes e dificuldades, resultando num conjunto particular de desafios em ambiente escolar. Sendo a comunicação o processo pelo qual o ser humano troca informação com os seus pares e, como tal, um fator crítico no processo de ensino e aprendizagem, acaba por ser menos acessível aos alunos com Síndrome de Down. É importante perceber se as escolas do ensino regular, bem como os professores que nelas lecionam, estão preparadas para receber alunos com SD de forma inclusiva. A presente dissertação teve como objetivo o estudo, caracterização e compreensão dos mecanismos de comunicação entre os professores e alunos com SD, em particular o papel de estratégias e ferramentas de comunicação aumentativa e alternativa, identificação de oportunidades de melhoria e recursos para o incremento da eficiência do processo de comunicação em contexto de sala de aula. Neste sentido, efetuou-se um estudo para perceber se os professores estão sensibilizados para esta problemática e se procuram encontrar estratégias bem como recursos que facilitem e fortaleçam o processo de comunicação na sala de aula, promovendo desta forma inclusiva a motivação e igualdade de oportunidades dos alunos com Síndrome de Down. O presente estudo mostra que os professores, regra geral, usam recursos informáticos para tornarem as aulas mais dinâmicas. Contudo, no que diz respeito ao conhecimento dos Sistemas Aumentativos e Alternativos de Comunicação (SAAC) apenas uma minoria dos participantes referiu conhecer. Desta minoria de professores que admitem conhecer os SAAC, poucos usam estes sistemas de comunicação para dinamização das suas aulas.
- Development and proposal of a reference tool for semi-structured interviews for the characterization of the management in mental health networksPublication . Vinci, André Luiz Teixeira; Rijo, Rui Pedro Charters Lopes; Marques, João Mazzoncini de Azevedo; Alves, DomingosIn 2011, Brazil’s mental health care networks were instituted; nevertheless, standardized arrangements or indicators for network evaluation and management were not established. Hence, a proposed model to evaluate municipal and regional management of such networks was elaborated. One of its steps consists of semi-structured interviews aiming the network management knowledge. Therefore, this paper aimed the development and validation of a reference tool for conducting interviews focusing on assessment of mental health care network management. Methods comprised definition of interest topics, questions elaboration for each topic, preliminary script preparation, script validation, script adequacy and definition of final script. Thus, the developed script consisted of 29 questions and 8 follow-up questions divided over 8 topics (interviewee characterization, legislation, decision-making processes, network structure, management participants, information systems, indicators, and knowledge of external experiences). The script also added individualized field reports and interview planning and execution guidelines. After validation, it was concluded that chosen topics were relevant and appropriate, despite minor modifications; and estimated average interview time remained close to prior established. Therefore, the developed tool can assist collecting information to help managers evaluate the network and improving population health. Moreover, the tool could be used in other localities or adapted for other networks.
- From guidelines to decision-making: using mobile applications and semantic web in the practical case of guides to support patientsPublication . Lima, Vinicius Costa; Rijo, Rui Pedro Charters Lopes; Pellison, Felipe Carvalho; Lima, Ricardo Roberto de; Correia, Ricardo João Cruz; Giuriati, Henrique Tresmonde; Alves, DomingosThe use of guidelines, procedures and recommendations is very common and also a simple way to structure, organize and retrieve relevant information that, in turn, may impact on patient care. However, it is necessary to expedite the retrieval of stored information. By simplifying the access to the desired data, it is possible to make the process practical, fast and intuitive for the health professional. The main goal of this article is to present a development approach for a project that proposes decision-making tools, based on guidelines, to assist health professionals in the care process of patients with specific diseases (or a combination of them). These tools will be developed for use on mobile devices and as a web-based system, which will transform a passive and declarative manual into an interactive tool that will provide not only data and information, but also knowledge through semantic web paradigm. Further, we will show an example of usability and feasibility of the proposed application through a functional prototype developed for Android platform.
- Forum participation plugin for Moodle: Development and DiscussionPublication . Muñoz, Andrés; Delgado, Ramiro; Rubio, Enrique; Grilo, Carlos; Basto-Fernandes, VitorAt present, a large amount of software has been created to analyze social networks, such as libraries to access online social networking APIs, software to draw graphs and tools to use and analyze networks. In fact, and because of the use of Moodle as standard Learning Management System at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in 2009 was born the idea of creating a plugin for Moodle capable of analyzing forums in which students participate and of identifying the major players within the student network. This work is about the present state of such plugin, which provides useful information to teachers so that, through the use of social network analysis, allows them to make decisions to improve and promote participatory education. Here, we show the application of the plugin to three case studies, in two different universities, which allowed to evaluate its usefulness and to compare the information according to the variables that influenced each case study.