Assembleia Geral 13/03/2026 |O desafio da educação para crianças neurodivergentes, sinalização turística e a historia de Adalgisa Cavalcanti

March 13, 2026·31 min·2 clips

Atypical mother Juliana Penha says the fight for neurodivergent inclusion 'is not with the teacher or director — it is with the system and with the executive power that refuses to act.'

1. Assembleia Geral from Rádio Alepe covers the March 13, 2026 session highlights of the Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco, presented by Thaisa Lima. 2. Host Thaisa Lima presents reports from journalists Isabela Senra and Tiago Cavalcanti, a plenary commentary from Ciro Rocha, and a historical interview by Clarissa Falbo with historian Daiane Vicente. 3. The episode focuses on three distinct policy areas: the failure to include neurodivergent students in regular schools, a new tourism signage law, and the first female Pernambuco deputy's political biography. 4. Atypical mother Ana Kate testified that neurodivergent children are being denied classroom entry due to the absence of pedagogical support professionals, describing this as a denial of a federally protected right. 5. Juliana Penha, representing Instituto Conecta pela Inclusão, stated that the situation is identical across all municipalities and that the families' fight is not with teachers or school staff but with the executive power that 'has the means and doesn't act because it doesn't want to.' 6. Teacher Andresa de Castro, who has two autistic children herself, said families are 'tired, exhausted, getting older' and that their rights are being denied by authorities they themselves placed in power. 7. Cristiane Oliveira of Associação Juntos pela Inclusão in Paulista stressed that inclusion responsibility belongs to the entire school community — from doorman to director — not only specialist professionals. 8. State Education Secretary representative Marcelo Santos reported that the state government is expanding recruitment of support professionals and conducting training programmes, without giving specific numbers. 9. Parliamentary front coordinator Deputy Joel da Arpa of PL proposed routing demands through AMUPE, the Pernambuco Municipal Association, to avoid approaching each of the state's 185 municipalities individually. 10. State Law 18,550 of 2024, authored by then-deputy Heriberto Filho of PSB, now requires new or replaced highway signs to include tourist information about local heritage, gastronomy, and natural attractions. 11. The PE-60 coastal highway linking Recife to Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Itamarandé, and the PE-232 heading to Caruaru and Gravatá, are cited as priority routes for the new signage. 12. Historian Daiane Vicente introduced Adalgisa Cavalcante as Pernambuco's first female state deputy and challenged the 'woman ahead of her time' framing, arguing Adalgisa acted strategically within her historical moment. 13. Adalgisa joined the Red International Aid in 1934 — an organisation providing legal and material support to political prisoners — after women gained voting rights in Brazil by 1932 decree. 14. She joined the National Liberating Alliance in early 1935, a broad coalition opposed to Vargas that included liberals, workers, and communists under the figurehead of Luiz Carlos Prestes. 15. Adalgisa participated in the November 1935 uprising in Recife, which began in Natal and quickly failed due to disorganisation; her two specific missions are known only through a 1982 audio interview she gave to researcher Eliana Moury Fernandes at the Fundação Joaquim Nabuco. 16. Vicente raises an intersectional hypothesis: Adalgisa reports she was never physically tortured — only subjected to moral and psychological violence — while Black activist Julia Santiago was physically tortured, suggesting race may have functioned as a relative privilege buffer. 17. The episode uses a radio news-magazine format with packaged reports, a plenary commentary, and a long-form historical interview, mixing Portuguese and English segments. 18. Ciro Rocha's plenary commentary noted seven speeches about state teachers' wage negotiations, a Recife hospital renovation delivery, fuel price concerns raised by Jarbas Filho of MDB, and Alep receiving an anti-racism prize from UNALI. 19. Listeners interested in Brazilian women's political history, northeast Brazil politics, or disability rights advocacy will find direct primary-source testimony and academic framing. 20. Listeners outside Brazil or those seeking national-level policy analysis rather than state-level legislative reporting will find limited transferable context.

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