THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF DOSVOX ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR INITIAL TRAINING TEACHERS: INTERMEDIATING INCLUSIVE TECHNOLOGICAL PRACTICES

The study aims to contibute to the initial training of teachers in a Pedagogy course through Assistive Technology - Dosvox, in view of the concepto of inclusive teaching and learning for students with visual impairments. For this study, a qualitative approach of an applied nature was used, having as a research strategy the case study. It was carried out in a public institution of higher education, located in the interior of the Parana, and brings as participants twenty-five teachers in initial formation of a course of pedagogy and a blind teacher. The instruments used for data analysis were: audio and video recordings, photos and practical intervention on the use of Assistive Technology - Dosvox. The data were analyzed from the historical-cultural. The results reveal that the interventions carried out by the blind teacher to the teachers in the initial formation of a pedagogy course contributed to the acquisition of new conceptions about the inclusive teaching and learning processo of Assistive Technology - Dosvox, allowing teachers to recognize and self-assess themselves pedagogically in the processo of inclusive education for people with visual impairments, among, them, in the way of teaching and learning with a blind teacher.