O uso das tecnologias da informação e comunicação (TICs) no processo de ensino-aprendizagem de estudantes surdos no ensino superior

Abstract

In recent years, the deaf community has shown its importance in society and achieved its space. One of these spaces is in higher education. Considering this and the pandemic context experienced since March 2021, because of the covid-19, this work has a general objective to investigate how the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can favor the inclusion and enhance the teaching-learning process of deaf students. Thus, it was intended to: verify with the research subjects which technological tools are used that favor the teaching-learning process; find out what are the main difficulties of deaf college students and how to overcome them; identify what are the solutions to overcome learning difficulties; verify the types of accessibility recommended in institutional documents and if they are applied. We have seen recently that not everyone is adapted to the use of technologies, and many still do not even have access to them. Thinking about this, it is inevitable not to reflect on how students who have some kind of disability are adapting. In the specific case of this research, the deaf students. The methodological approach applied was qualitative, field and exploratory research. Thus, semi-structured interviews, content analysis and bibliographic research were conducted. Data analysis was guided by the assumptions of Bardin (2011). The theoretical discussion was based on legal norms and the following authors: Valentini and Bisol (2012); Mill (2018); Skliar (2016); Strobel (2013). The research was conducted in a private Higher Education Institution and two students, a teacher and an interpreter of Brazilian Sign Language were interviewed. It was possible to observe that the main difficulty of the students is in written communication. In addition, it became evident that WhatsApp is the communication tool most used for educational purposes by the subjects involved in the research. It was expected that this research will not exhaust the reflections on the theme, but encourage new perspectives that contribute to the notability of the subject.