AutoSTEM for inclusion: adapting a teaching guide for blind and visual impaired children.
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In order to promote educational inclusion in the activities of the Erasmus+ Project Automata for STEM nr 2018-1-PT01-KA201-047499, it was developed the adaptation for blind or visual impaired children of the pedagogical guide of one of the autómata of that project. The adaptation process aimed, on the one hand, to promote mental representation of the automaton and its parts, but also the construction of it by the children. It is a bird, made of paper and cardboard, whose movement is the beating of the wings, through sliding motion. Taking into account the importance that auditory information and the tactile experience assume in blindness and viusal impaired people, throughout the adaptation process, additional resources were developed, namely embossed sheets for a tactile exploration of the geometric shapes of the toy, and also several descriptions and instructions that the teacher or educator can follow in order to promote, for instance, mental representations of the geometric concepts by the children.
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