As tecnologias assistivas auxiliando no ensino das pessoas com deficiência no ensino superior.

Abstract

Nowadays, technologies are present so naturally that, sometimes, we did not even notice their presence in many daily activities. In the educational field, technologies are encompassing, each day, greater proportions, being the most innovative educational tool in constant evolution. Researchers create, often, innovative new educational technologies. Assistive technologies are one of these innovations to help people with disabilities in their education and in other activities of their lives. Based on this assumption, this study discusses about the theme "Assistive technologies helping the teaching of people with disabilities in higher education". This study intends, as main objective, to verify if higher education institutions of Cajazeiras -PB have assistive technologies that can help the accessibility and if they have qualified staff to assist the disabled people in their respective courses. The research is characterized as being applied, descriptive, quantitative and qualitative. The data collection instrument used was a questionnaire constituted of eleven objective and subjective questions, applied with coordinators of the five higher education institutions of Cajazeiras-PB. The results of this study point to the necessity of preparation of teachers in the use of assistive technologies, in a coherent way, with the students' needs, the results also point that there are few students with disabilities in higher education in Cajazeiras, and that the assistive technologies present in the teaching institutions are scarce to this students. As contribution, it is pointed out the importance of assistive technologies to help students with some type of disability in their undergraduate courses, emphasizing that it is important to recognize the importance of implementing and consolidating it to minimize some barriers for people with disabilities. It is hoped that this research may encourage new researchers to study this topic, as well as that it can contribute as a bibliographic source for other academic works in some of these areas.