Extensio: Revista Eletrônica de Extensão (Apr 2019)

Democratization of the teaching of Morphological Sciences project: promoting acessibility for visually impaired people

  • Léia de Andrade,
  • Matheus Henrique Medeiros Grisoski,
  • Pâmmyla Rafaela Ostermann Nunes,
  • Monique Piacentini,
  • Ruth Emilia Nogueira,
  • Rosemy da Silva Nascimento,
  • Eliane Maria Goldfeder,
  • Juliano Andreoli Miyake,
  • Patricia de Souza Brocardo,
  • Kieiv Resende Sousa de Moura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-0221.2019v16n32p154
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 32
pp. 154 – 166

Abstract

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In Brazil, although access to education is guaranteed by law, the inclusion of disabled people in the educational system is not occurring at the necessary speed, either due to lack of educational resources or lack of adequate training of educators. The extension project Democratization of the teaching of morphological sciences: promoting accessibility for visually impaired people aims to research and develop adequate didactic material, low of cost, and easy to reproduce, for the teaching of cellular biology and histology to the visually impaired. The tactile matrices, forms of representing structures with the use of materials with different textures and reliefs, were the didactic tools chosen. At present, tactile matrices of various cells of biological tissues are being made and tested. The results obtained will be published with the confection of an atlas of morphology and the creation of the electronic website of the project.

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