Chemical Kinetics on the tip fingers: an Assistive Technology Resource for Blind and Low Vision Students

The discipline of Chemistry helps the student to become a more critical citizen. Since chemical concepts are present in every day-to-day process, this training should be encompassed in the education of all students in the basic education system, providing equal learning for students with or without disabilities. Teachers have faced many challenges so that the student's teaching-learning process is achieved with regard to the teaching of Chemistry for the visually impaired. The lack of adequate materials is an example. Therefore, the present work addresses the issue of inclusion of visually impaired people in classrooms in regular schools, based on the adaptation of a didactic material prepared for high school students addressing the subject of Chemical Kinetics. In order to fulfill the proposed objective, the creation of the material followed the steps: writing the textual part, transcription, texturing of figures, revision, printing, and avaliation. After its creation, it was evaluated by blind reviewers of the Instituto Benjamin Constant (IBC) and by five students (three blind and two low vision) of regular schools so that it can be checked for its efficiency and applicability, being approved for national replication through thermoforming process and registration in IBC. The Figure 1 shows one page as an example, the picture in the left contains two different colors for the better visualization of low vision students and the image in the right shows the same page texturized with bottons (reactants) and stickers (products).