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Students with deafness or hearing impairment have at their disposal on the website of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) a glossary of terms that are used in the title of Administration and Business Management (ADE), with videos in which they are described in sign language keywords of business science.
The teacher innovation project, which in its first phase has already included 130 terms and as many videos of five subjects of the degree in ADE, is coordinated by Professor Belén Cobacho and has received funding from the Faculty of Business Sciences and Campus Mare Nostrum, as well as with the support and technical assistance of the Digital Content Production Center of the UPCT.
A group of professors from the Faculty have selected the key words of their subjects and have prepared a concise description, which has been interpreted on video by a sign language specialist, Alicia Rosique.
The signs he has used to describe the terms have been agreed with a deaf student who studies ADE in the UPCT, because there are no standardized symbols for terms as specific as those used in the University.
There has also been the collaboration of a deaf person, adviser and specialist in sign language.
"We hope that the glossary can help students with hearing disabilities of any Spanish university in which these subjects are taught and that it is also useful in the business world and for interpreters", explains Belén Cobacho, who came up with the project as a result of discovering that the multimedia content that he habitually prepared for his classes was not useful for the deaf student.
The subjects from which the first 130 terms have been extracted are quite diverse, from Commercial Management to Human Resources Management, passing through Microeconomics and Mathematics.
"Within the framework of services for the attention of university students in situations of disability, universities must promote programs and specific initiatives to assist university students who are deaf or hard of hearing," recalls Cobacho.
"With this didactic tool that develops, in sign language, the specific terminology of some of the subjects of the Degree in Business Administration and Management, we want to advance on the path towards equal opportunities in education and university education", adds .
The glossary can be consulted on the web http://lenguadesignosade.upct.es
Source: UPCT
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