La diversidad funcional y las adaptaciones curriculares

This article is presented as a topic revision; and refers to the curriculum about the attention given to the diversity from different historical moments, starting with the traditional approach (characterized by the exclusion), afterwards, the medical-rehabilitative (characterized by the assistentialism and the segregation), to reach the current school (framed mainly in the social model for the diversity). The aforementioned has allowed the creation of adaptations planned according to students’ potential as a human being in his biological, functional, sexual and cultural diversity. Through the historical and conceptual reflection, it is currently highlighted on how in the attention for the functional diversity there is a major emphasis on the human rights and on the human dignity.