A LOOK AT THE USE OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT THE EDUCATION OF THE DEAF IN PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL TRAINING IN NURSING IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICT
Assistive Technology; Deaf Education; Professional Education Deaf.
The deaf population in Brazil inserted in the schooling process has increased in recent years and with that, Basic Education in the form of Professional and Technological Education has provided the professionalization of these students for the world of work. However, it is observed that their professional insertion is still a challenge, in which the teacher, the school and the State have a fundamental role, mainly with the perspective brought by the implementation and use of Assistive Technology (AT) support. As an objective, we sought to understand the use of AT as a support for the education of the deaf in professional nursing education. The research, with a qualitative approach, was constituted as a Case Study with direct observation, conversation wheel, semi-structured interview. Data were collected over 4 months and analyzed from the perspective of content analysis by Bardin (2016) adapted by Franco (2018) using the NVIVO software. The results showed that professors use AT to support the teaching-learning process with deaf students during professional training, favoring inclusive participation, and that the Libras interpreter plays a preponderant role for effective communication during the teaching-learning process observed. It can be said that technological resources, when applied with the perspective of Universal Design, (SILVA, 2017) considering its fundamental principle that it is diversity that constitutes us as people and that because of it we are diverse in the way of being, surpassing the limitation individual student, favoring a world more accessible to all.