Audiovisual translation: accessibility practices for deaf people at unicamp's speech therapy graduation course

Abstract

The inclusion projects in the higher education context within Public Universities are direct results of inclusive educational policies started in the 1990s, which obtained great strength for their development from the Salamanca Statement, dated 1994, which inaugurates a new eye, to inclusion, helping all students who did not benefit from the school process. Illustrating the challenge of a real inclusion, which, for the deaf person is transposed, as the need of turning everything that is visible in palpable and/or audible, for the person to achieve the construction of an imagery representation, in one's memory, of what is being put around that person. Therefore, the equality opportunity within Campinas State University (UNICAMP) is developed in order to respect the deaf person's particularities, through inclusive pedagogic practices: such as the adaptation of the written texts in audios, using voice synthesizers, image and figure representations in 2D format, audio book and Reading/Audio Description's professional availability. These services are present on the Speech Therapy graduation course, as of 2016, motivated by the entrance of a deaf student, in the mentioned course. Such resources are offered by UNICAMP's Graduation Pro-Rectorate (PRG), through the extension of service and attendances of its Sign Language Interpreters and Translators Center (TILS Center).