Laboratories

The laboratories of the program’s professors support teaching, research and extension activities, involving professors, graduate students, undergraduate students and scientific initiation scholarship holders. All laboratories allow collective (area reserved for meetings) and individual work, and contain cabinets for office supplies and storage of the collection in the form of sectorial libraries (books, collections of periodicals in the area) and equipment (notebooks, camcorders, cameras, software for data analysis).

Special Education Laboratory (LEE): Meets the needs of the community of São Carlos and region, develops research on educational programs, evaluation of educational programs for hearing, visual, intellectual and multiple disabilities. It also coordinates the planning and supervision of classes for people with sensory disabilities in municipal public schools.

Learning Psychology Laboratory (LPA): It is essentially intended for studies of behavior and learning as a condition to implement scientific research as a privileged teaching method, requiring student participation in research projects that focus on basic learning processes, bases behavior, basic cognitive processes in different species, etiology and evolutionary issues, and animal models for the study of pharmacological effects and human pathologies, among others.

Laboratory for the Study of Human Behavior (LECH): It is primarily an environment for the development of research on human behavior, in which observational procedures are used and/or which require the use of audiovisual recording equipment and computer equipment for conducting of experimental sessions with humans. Second, it constitutes a resource for teaching, installing skills related to observation, direct or mediated by audiovisual records, of human behavior and the use of experimental procedures. Due to its characteristics, it can house investigations with a wide variety of objectives and procedures, as well as serving different purposes in teaching and training. LECH also develops research that seeks to apply knowledge to the solution of social problems. For this, LECH includes a Reading Initiation Unit, located in the Carolina Bori Building. The Reading Initiation Unit works as a research and teaching laboratory and as a provider of educational services, investigating basic learning processes and developing procedures for teaching reading, writing and mathematics and other procedures for investigating relational learning. It primarily serves public elementary school students with learning difficulties and provides advice to teachers.

Social Interaction Laboratory (LIS): Intended for the study of issues related to social interactions, in particular those that occur in educational processes and practices in the environment of day care centers, preschools and elementary schools, with a view to promoting development and social skills in educators and/or learners. The laboratory offers advice to community day care centers and social skills promotion courses.

Laboratory of Studies on Educational Inclusion (LINC): It aims to produce scientific knowledge that contributes to the universalization of access and improvement of the quality of education offered to children and young people with special educational needs in the Brazilian reality and focuses on the Special Education policy and the development of training programs for professionals in this area. The laboratory hosts the Research Group on Human Resources Training in Special Education and the Extension Program on Continuing Training in Special Education, and in addition to its studies, it provides advice to special education institutions in the community and public networks and offers extension courses for professionals in the field.

Laboratory of Human Learning, Interactive Multimedia and Computerized Teaching (LAHMIEI): It is intended for the development of research on human behavior, especially those that use interactive multimedia resources and computerized teaching to favor learning processes and human cognition, and in line with professionalization of people with disabilities.

Activity and Development Laboratory: Its objective is to develop research aimed at Human Activity and its relationship with development in the various stages of the life cycle. The works are focused on: activities specific to each stage of development; the play of normal children and children with special needs; interventions in childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age; protective and risk factors for development; use of time and its relationship with quality of life.

Laboratory of Studies in Adapted Physical Activity (LEAFA): Covers research aimed at the production and systematization of knowledge in Physical Education and Adapted Sports, dedicated to the study of different stages of the teaching and learning process of these contents, with emphasis on evaluation processes training, from the perspective of inclusion in formal and non-formal education.

Laboratory of Social Studies in Science and Technology (LESCT): Develops research on the quantitative and qualitative dimension of scientific knowledge, through studies on communication and scientific production in different contexts and areas of knowledge, based on the methodologies of bibliometric analysis and scientometric. It carries out studies on the processes of production, communication and appropriation of scientific and technological knowledge anchored in the approaches of Social Studies of Science and Sociology of Science.

High Skills Research Laboratory (LAPAH): its general objective is to contribute to the deepening and theoretical-practical reflection of teaching, research and extension in High Skills, proposing to: produce knowledge in the areas of High Skills and multidisciplinary fields in that this contribution is relevant; making it possible to make the knowledge produced in the area of High Skills accessible to the community; contribute to the training, specialization, improvement and/or updating of professionals; offer advice and consultancy on matters that are part of the areas of knowledge covered.

11. In 2011, the construction of the laboratory building financed by CT-INFRA/FINEP, which expanded the research infrastructure for PPGEES professors by approximately 1100m². The Carolina Bori building of PPGEEs/PPGPsi comprises five research laboratories: Laboratory of Human Behavior Studies (LECH); Reading Initiation Unit; Laboratory of Human Learning, Interactive Multimedia and Computerized Teaching (LAHMIEI); Laboratory of Studies on Disability and Education (LEDE); and Laboratory of Educational Processes and Practices (LPPE). In addition, LECH and the Reading Initiation Unit are the headquarters of the National Institute of Science and Technology in Behavior, Cognition and Teaching (INCT-ECCE), which brings together, in addition to UFSCar, nine other Brazilian and three international universities. The purpose of this new building is the development of research directed towards human activity and its relationship with development in the various stages of life.

Assistive Technology Teaching Laboratory (LETA): The Assistive Technology Teaching Laboratory provides space for the local community (undergraduates, graduate students and professors of UFSCar courses) and the external community (professors of the municipal and state public network, of of specialized teaching), providing moments of learning/training about Assistive Technology.

Toy library: The toy library of the Degree in Special Education, from an inclusive perspective, provides space for the local community (undergraduates and teachers of UFSCar courses) and the external community (teachers from the municipal and state public network, from specialized teaching institutions), providing moments of learning about toys that stimulate different areas of child development, especially considering toys adapted for children who are the target audience of Special Education; on the making of adapted toys and on pedagogical practices that favor children's play.

Laboratory for Teaching Visual Impairment and Human Development - LEDVDH: The objective of the laboratory is to carry out teaching, research and extension activities involving themes related to visual impairment and human development. The laboratory serves the internal community (undergraduate and graduate students) and the external community (mainly teachers from the public school system).

Laboratory of Bilingual Approach and Deafness (LABS): LABS makes space available to the local community (undergraduates, postgraduates and professors of UFSCar courses) and the external community (professors from municipal and state public schools, from specialized educational institutions or from bilingual teaching), providing moments of learning/training on Libras, Deaf Education and Interpretation/Translation.

Laboratory of Information on Special Education and Pedagogical Practice and Cognitive Development: The objective of the laboratory is to train students and teachers in relation to special education topics. The laboratory serves the internal community (undergraduate and graduate students) and the external community (mainly teachers from the public school system).

Laboratory of Studies on Disabilities and Education (LEDE): Created in 2014, LEDE is dedicated to study, research and extension activities related to the training of human resources from the perspective of accessibility and legitimation of subjectivities and differences in societies. The laboratory is open to UFSCar communities (undergraduates, postgraduates and civil servants) and external (Basic and Higher Education institutions, companies and public bodies). Located in the Carolina Bori Building, the space is accessible and has study, research and meeting rooms, a library and a storeroom.

Laboratory of Behavior Analysis and Special Education (LACEDE): created in 2021, its general objective is to contribute to the deepening and theoretical-practical reflection of teaching, research and extension using the assumptions of Behavior Analysis for (1) teaching and the learning of individuals who make up the Special Education audience and (2) the study of social issues that involve, for example, racial and gender prejudices.