Guidance and vocational counselling aimed at a student affected by Duchenne muscular distrofy (DMD)

Abstract

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The LOGSE (1990) development to improve diversity in education at the «Institutos de Educación Secundaria» (IES) requires sensitivity and availability of cultural change, center's organization and management, curriculum adaptation, removal of architectural barriers, special equipment, coordination among all didactic departments and guidance department, etc. All these changes in order to offer a quality education for the students and their families. This article  presents the guidance process (Benavent, 1999) and vocational counselling (García y Ferrer, 1997) aimed at a student with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), who passed three courses of BUP and at present is enroled in COU (the last year of high school).