INCLUSIVE DESIGN: ELECTRONIC MUSICAL GUIDELINES FOR TEACHING PEOPLE WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

Abstract

Currently, there has been assiduously talked about inclusive education, Brazil has a large number of people with visual impairment and each one of them can present several problems in their lives, such as: mobility; psychological factors; social aspects. Because there is a need to interact with the disabled, qualify professionals and make adaptations to insert them into society, increasing self-esteem and autonomy. The present work addresses the difficulty in learning music, mainly in the theoretical understanding of a staff and its spelling. Therefore, this work aims to present the development of a tactile reading sensory instrument where a musical staff that is usually written in paper, to a physical form, connected to a keyboard, where the individual is able to interpret the musical notes. This study was developed through a technological research of experimental character, practical examples of the device were demonstrated to teachers and students of the Association and Movement for Assistance to the Disabled Individual - AMAI Jaú and obtained a positive result, after the spatial recognition of the equipment and initial orientations, it was possible to recognize the musical notes and their positions on the staff, then naturally and automatically, according to the AMAI teachers and students, it was possible to identify the similarity of the sounds with the keyboard keys. Teaching through a device can be a good strategy for the teacher and student, it represents an important learning mechanism and leads to experiencing sensory, hormonal, physical-motor, psychological and cognitive reactions.