Abstract

This work shows an alternative approach for teaching basic concepts of optics and acoustics, addressed to people with visual disabilities. We describe in detail how concepts as wave, period, frequency, wavelength, maximum, minimum, amplitude, reflection, transmission, and absorption are explained through adapted experiments. The workshop has been implemented 3 times so far, benefiting 20 people with visual disabilities and 60 people with multiple disabilities. On the other hand, this work also shows some dynamics that can be done with people without disabilities to raise awareness and identify the needs that we have as a society to be inclusive in a sector as important as education. In this sense, this workshop has been attended by 90 people without disabilities of which some of them are currently volunteers in the execution of the workshop. Finally, the work also talks about other ideas that have arisen during the development of this project and how they plan to get going in the near future.

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