Entre acessos e processos: a inclusão da pessoa com deficiência visual no IFG – Câmpus Goiânia

Abstract

This present study is part of the research line “Educational Practices in Professional and Technological Education (EPT)” and aims to identify the context of inclusion of the visually impaired person within the scope of the Instituto Federal de Goiás (IFG), Câmpus Goiânia from the perspective of accessibility to information and communication. The theoretical foundation encompasses special and inclusive education in Brazil (1990), professional education in the Federal Technological Network and the inclusion of people with visual impairments or low vision and their respective Assistive Technologies (AT). The basis of this study brought to the theoretical contribution authors such as Ciavatta (2005, 2014), Frigotto (2005, 2009), Mantoan (2001, 2015), Marx (2001), Mazzotta (1999) and Vygotski (1991, 1997), and others. In the methodological framework, a qualitative approach of a bibliographic and documentary nature was used, with the application of questionnaires in semi-structured interviews with the research participants. The data collected in field research showed that the inclusion process in the Câmpus Goiânia of the IFG still presents its incipient steps with regard to special and inclusive education in contradiction to the institutional commitment made to offer a public, omniliteral education to everyone, without exception. As a result of this research, an educational product was created in textual material, in the form of an explanatory guide, in order to contribute to the improvement of the inclusive process of these students. The educational product, entitled “Guide for accessibility to electronic processes: Students with visual impairments and low vision at IFG – Câmpus Goiânia”, was developed for the public with total blindness with a Braille version and also aimed at the public with low vision, in a printed version containing appropriate fonts and diagramming, both versions to be made available at the Library and at the Núcleo de Atendimento às Pessoas com Necessidades Específicas (NAPNE) of the Goiânia Câmpus.