Boas práticas de acessibilidade na educação superior: tecnologia assistiva e desenho universal

Abstract

This master's dissertation is transposed between the themes inclusion, accessibility, people with disabilities and teaching-learning. We have taken up the challenge of understanding the need to increase knowledge about student accessibility and its needs in Higher Education. The main objective of this work is to point out proposals for good practices of Accessibility, based on Assistive Technology and Universal Design, in an attempt to draw a support for the teacher to work in the formation and engagement of students in the scenario of a contemporary university. In order to build a profile on accessibility of this contemporary Brazilian university, we constructed the profile of the Accessibility Centers of the Federal Universities participating in the INCLUDE program. Thus, within the French Discourse Analysis methodology, references based on the corpus of dissemination, objectives and actions of these Centers were constructed to compare with reports of students with disabilities, that from a larger cut, it was possible to identify paths to good practices and the need for a heterogeneous education based on a curricular modification. The results of this research may contribute to the identification of possible solutions to problems considered urgent by people who work in this area. This study, therefore, does not have as its purpose the provision of definitive answers to a problem