O uso de mídias na educação de jovens deficientes visuais nas escolas estaduais de Santa Rosa – RS

Abstract

The medias can now be considered as teaching material, as teachers and students use several of them to deepen and acquiring new knowledge. In education, one of the situations in which the media end up being very necessary is the use of computers by teachers or students with special needs. The computers have become an important tool for teachers working in schools of including, for visually impaired students perceive them as major allies in their studies. With the aid of applications and programs, these students may type, study, listen to books, translate texts into Braille and surf the internet with great ease and autonomy. Thus, this work has to meet these situations, since it seeks, through interviews and conversations with educators, perceive the current situation of media use in learning, particularly information technology for the visually impaired.