A tecnologia assistiva no Ensino Superior: reflexões sobre seu uso para alunos ouvintes e surdos

Abstract

It is known that assistive technologies seek to reduce physical limitations, such as breaking down barriers and bringing communication between deaf and hearing subjects. The aim of this work is to describe how cyberculture can be a triggering factor for the production of assistive technologies for deaf students. This work is of bibliographic character, elaborated through systematic reading of books and articles, highlighting the points addressed by the authors. Initially, we will present considerations about the assistive technologies present in society and their relations with the subjects. In a second moment, the concepts of cyberculture and cyberspace will be explained, with the intention to clarify them and later relate them to trends and evolutions of assistive technologies in Brazil / world. Among the existing assistive technologies, this work prioritizes information and communication technologies aimed at helping communication between deaf individuals and listeners present in higher education institutions. The results describe that access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by deaf or disabled people are resources that trigger social transformations, as well as changes in the way knowledge is constructed. We conclude that technological resources are part of the limitations of hearing impairment, minimizing the barriers in communication between listeners and deaf people.