The audiobook and its contribution to the process of information dissemination and social inclusion

Abstract

Abstract This paper presents, based on the literature on the subject, the concept, characteristics and advantages of using the audiobook, seen as a useful information resource in the process of social inclusion, especially with regard to the visually impaired, beyond facilitating and encouraging access to reading. It also shows responses from the research conducted among students and school staff José Álvares de Azevedo (Rio Grande/RS) and Louis Braille (Pelotas/RS), whose objective was to determine for which purpose and how often the audiobook is used by them. Finally, before examining the results collected with the research, it was relevant to check if the majority of the respondents not only knew the audiobook, but if the assimilation of its content would be really considered as important by them.