The integral, sustained and pertinent development of the Special Education professional / El desarrollo integral, sostenido y pertinente del profesional de la Educación Especial

Abstract

The research is carried out based on the identification of needs related to the doctoral training process in the Special Education department specifically with the assurance of the necessary upward continuity and vitality of Careers Special Education and Speech Therapy Education. Its purpose is to show the scope and meaning of a departmental strategy to raise the quality of the training of its professionals through the integration of substantive processes for the conduct and impact of research and for its external projection in the territory, at a national and international in a way that guarantees the integral, sustained and pertinent development of the Department of Special Education of the University of Pinar del Río. In its development methods of the theoretical level were used, such as the analytical-synthetic, induction-deduction, hypothetical-deductive of the empirical level was used the documentary analysis, observation and interview, were also used for the descriptive and inferential statistics that they allowed to collect, interpret and process the information related to the subject. We present results that show the continuous rise of university processes since the implementation of a strategy with a systemic approach.