Graphic Design and Speech Therapy: an interuniversity and transdisciplinary proposal aimed at inclusive graphic design solutions

Abstract

This article aims to present the inter-university and transdisciplinarity partnership between Graphic Design and Speech Therapy to produce innovative research methodologies and project in inclusives materials that take into account the communication disorders, particularly visual. It is notorious the increasing discussion of the design function as a facilitator of information and its importance to the development of projects that are accessible to an ever larger and more diverse. In this sense, the Research Group on Inclusive Design Graphic: Vision, Hearing and Language has been conducting a broad dialogue with the Health Sciences, specifically Speech on inclusion in related areas such as the Graphic Design Design Informational, Instructional Design and Cognitive Ergonomics and its possible contributions in the disturbances in the area of language, such as low visual acuity, hearing and dyslexia. The research environments polarized between the Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) - and the Univresidade de São Paulo (USP), where centers, laboratories and research groups are organized around common proposals. In addition to the theoretical foundation, they are being developed a set of specific actions including research around the appropriate printers to reading dyslexic, development of instructional materials printed for the deaf and digital instructional material for professionals working in the intervention of communication disorders. Such actions involve different forms of research - undergraduate, masters, doctorate and teaching - as well as the effective development of graphic design products aimed at inclusion.

Keywords

• Design gráfico Inclusivo, Ergonomia Cognitiva, Distúrbios da comunicação e aprendizagem, Dislexia