O ENFOQUE COGNITIVO E O USO DAS TECNOLOGIAS DE INFORMAÇÃO EM SITUAÇÃO DE LIMITAÇÃO SENSORIAL

Abstract

The prospective use of computers in education activities points to specific demands, such as adult literacy and continuing education, as well as services for groups with special needs. These groups may be geographically dispersed, and working with them requires a wide range of specialists. The Ministry of Education has set National Policies for the integration of people with special needs and has established rules to protect this population. New language and behavior patterns in the use of information technology are already detected, but studies about them are still scarce. There is an urgent need for research about specific cognitive aspects and the use of information technology by people with sensorial limitations. The focus of this paper is on hearing disability and the limitations that it brings on the use of information technologies, more specifically web sites.