Pra cego ver : desenvolvimento de simulações auditivas para o ensino de conceitos de eletromagnetismo de estudantes com deficiências visuais

Abstract

There is a need to adapt the classroom to visually-impaired students. The main learning obstacle of these students is found in the teacher-student communication problems regarding the presentation of concepts that are linked to visual information. Some of the dissertations and thesis on Physics Teaching from the past 10 years in Brazil propose solutions to this problem; however, most of them use tactile resources such as tactile images and mockups, which present practical difficulties in their application, including the production, transportation and reuse of these materials. The adoption of learning objects emerges as a possibility to overcome these difficulties, yet the amount of available accessible objects to the visually impaired on web is scarce. Studies show that it is possible to translate visual information through sound stimuli for its comprehension by the visually impaired. This research objective is to develop a learning object for teaching concepts of the Electromagnetism – electric field and electric force - to blind and low vision students, using the concept of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution to create simulations about the referred topics. The research is of qualitative nature, classified as a study of case.