O ensino-aprendizagem de Libras e o uso de tecnologias assistivas digitais

Abstract

The inclusion of deaf students using Libras is a recurrent agenda in educational debates. In order to favor them, some assistive technologies were recently developed capable of assisting both in teaching and learning the aforementioned language, which gain prominence for their functionalities through the use of applications installed on cell phones, tablets, computers. The objective is to analyze how assistive technologies help in Libras teaching-learning process. Therefore, the difference between such assistive technologies and the information and communication technologies used the educational context is problematized; it is verified how Libras is constituted from the recognition of the existence of a deaf culture and its importance for the inclusion of deaf people in the bilingual context; features of available and found applications stand out, which are characterized as assistive technologies for deaf students. It is a qualitative research, whose procedures are the literature review and the registration of assistive technology applications. Finally, it is concluded that this is a thematic innovation in the studies of deafness and communication in Libras, since by listing such resources, as well as analyzing them, it becomes possible to encourage the use of Libras, and consequently, favor the inclusive social and educational processes of its users.