CONFRONTING AMATEUR AND ACADEMIC AUDIODESCRIPTION: A BRAZILIAN CASE STUDY
2011; Volume: 2011; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês
10.17771/pucrio.tradrev.18863
ISSN1808-6195
AutoresEliana P. C. Franco, SANDRA R ROSA FARIAS, ÍRIS FORTUNATO, MANOELA CRISTINA DA SILVA,
Tópico(s)Business and Management Studies
ResumoAccord ing to the 2000 census published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 14.5% of the Brazilian population have some kind of physical impairment.The largest percentage is found in the Northeast (16.8%), and the smallest percentage is in the Southeast (13.1%).As regards visually impaired people, in 2000 there were 148,000 blind people, and 2.4 million people who had considerable sight problems.Among the blind, 77,900 were women and 70,100 were men.In Brazil as a whole, the Northeast had the highest concentration of blind people -57,400against 54,600 in the Southeast.São Paulo was the state in the Southeast with the largest concentration of blind people (23,900), followed by the Northeastern state of Bahia, with 15,400 blind people. 2 In 2004, according to the World Health Organization, there were 5 million blind people in Brazil (Revista O Globo, 15 August 2004), and according to TV Câmera (30 March 2005), in 2005 there were 25 million people who were either blind or visually impaired.For Hall (1986), sight is a sense whose importance goes beyond capturing information.It has a very specific informative role that can translate into interest, attraction or repulsion, permeating the types of relationships that can be established through it in society.The loss of sight (partial or total) compromises the bio-psychosocial participation of the individual because s/he will not be able to follow the normality pattern established by society (Santos, 2004).Ochaita & Rosa (1988) claim that the blind individual represents the world in a qualitatively different way; that is, the blind person adapts to the sensorial information that is at his/her disposal.According to Martín & Bueno, 2003), these individuals follow a development parallel to that of those
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