Creating Awareness of Blind Students

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Pedagogy - Higher Education, grade: 10.0, University of Veracruz, language: English, abstract: When people are learning a second language, they have to make use of all their senses, for example, the sight, the touch, the hearing. Their senses are routes to send messages to their brain and activate their cognitive process to get input from different sources. However, for people with any disability, the situation is different. For example, have you asked how a blind student learns without using the sight?, how do teachers or parents teach them colors, numbers, shapes? Maybe a lot of people have made themselves these questions, but perhaps they do not know how to answer them because they have not had the opportunity of dealing with a blind person. For this investigation, the issue of creating awareness of blind students in the B.A in English of the language school of the University of Veracruz was searched. The language faculty was created 50 or 51 years ago and since then it has never had a blind student. For this reason, this situation attracted my attention because it was amazing for me to know that there was a blind learner studying the B.A. in English. Besides when we saw Marj for the first time in the staircases, a lot of questions passed on our mind in relation to her way of learning without using the sight: the way her teachers taught her, if they had appropriate material for her, how she worked into the classroom with her partners, if she was an independent person or needed help from others.

Auteur

Copérnico Fernando Pereyra Centella holds a BA in English and an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). He is interested in written feedback, motivation, inclusion and special education needs. Fanny Nallely Hernández Sánchez holds a BA in English. She is interested in reading, motivation, inclusion and special education needs.