FINDROUTE APP: A PROPOSAL FOR AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION (AAA) FOR STUDENTS WITH ASD OF MEDIUM FUNCTIONALITY IN THE COURSES OF LANGUAGES - GERMAN AND ENGLISH AT FALEM-UFPA

Abstract

Currently, there is a significant number of students with disabilities in higher education institutions. At FALEM-UFPA there are no records of ASD students with medium functionality, adults, enrolled in the courses of Letters – German Language and English Language, however, we know that these students may present, as one of the characteristics of their disability, communication difficulties both in their mother tongue and when using a second language. For this research, the FindRoute APP was planned as a way to develop the linguistic skills of these students so that they can use both languages – German and English – to ask for and give information about directions and how to get to certain places at UFPA. For the conception of the APP, the developers perfected a Thematic Board for AAC, in physical format, for an online platform, from the APP Inventor software, such motivation arose from instigations of the discipline of Development of Educational Products for Assistive Technology. Due to the limited time for the application to be made available, the validation of the resource cannot be performed, however, in the future, there is the possibility of testing through the application of the APP with a group of 10 adult ASD students with medium functionality. After using the resource, these app users can give feedback, through a questionnaire, on the effectiveness of the educational product and results can be collected for later improvements and adaptations of the FindRoute APP, if necessary.