A acessibilidade de alunos com surdez no ensino superior, durante a pandemia da Covid-19

Abstract

To understand the challenges faced in online classes by university students with hearing impairment, raise a discussion about the effectiveness of remote classes for students with deafness. Address the negative aspects for possible future improvements in virtual classes. Methods: This is a literature review and cross-sectional subject. The sites used to do the searches are Scielo (Scientific Library Online) and Google Scholar, the time was indefinite. Results: Seven articles related to the topic were selected. According to the data collected, the great difficulty that deaf students had in face-to-face classes can be seen, as in the interaction between hearing and non-hearing people, which in fact intensified with the arrival of the pandemic, increasing the challenges for these students in classes online. Conclusion: Covid-19 brought challenges for deaf students to face in remote classes, such as failures and interruptions on the internet, difficulties in understanding what the teacher is saying, cameras turned off, interaction between classmates and teachers remained smaller, requiring a forced adaptation of all. It is noticeable that people who have deafness need to be included both in face-to-face classes and in remote classes, with adequate and quality care.