Joselia Neves

A co-design process involving autistic children can provide a substantial benefit and optimal utilization of technologies to an off-the-shelf design-based one. Having a voice and making a contribution plays a major role in the co-design process. Yet autistic children exhibit varying communication and social skill and some of them may be minimally v...

The prevalence of autism is currently on the rise around the world. Autism is often associated with challenges in social communication, which could impact children’s ability to play and integrate with their surroundings. Despite this, there is a lack of studies on that explore collaborative play for autistic children. To address this deficiency, a...

The analysis of particular experiences in the light of academic thought is bound to help us understand the impact of educational approaches on real people living in real contexts, while shedding light at a macro-level on translator education at large. This article addresses the analysis of one particular case of project-based learning on AVT for Ac...

This interdisciplinary study examines the impact of using enriched subtitling (ES), within a total communication (TC) holistic approach to language learning, on the acquisition of vocabulary by deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students. The performance of the students in an experimental class, using an ES-based lesson, was compared to two classes usi...

Families with young children typically struggle to engage with traditional art museum environments. This research examined the impact of multisensory tools on family engagement within Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar. Sixty families with at least one child aged 0–11 were observed during two tasks. One task required participants to look at a...

Reflexão teórica sobre acesso ao patrimônio cultural tangível e intangível na defesa de um novo paradigma de mediação cultural apoiado no modelo de comunicação inclusiva. Advoga-se que para a cultura fruir a toda e qualquer pessoa, haverá necessidade de eliminar todo tipo de barreiras, que vão desde a envolvente territorial e arquitetônica, às estr...

Within a museum context, audio description (AD) is generally thought to be a tool for enhancing access for people with a visual impairment, in other words, as a means of providing access, through verbal description, to visual details of an object or artwork. Taking evidence from researchers and practitioners, we argue that AD has a much broader pot...

What would it be like to step into a painting? Do you know what a painting feels like? Does it make a sound? How does it smell? These questions attracted over 60 families to Ektashif: Art through the Senses. The programme, which took place at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar, revolved around the concept of a ‘sensory toolkit’. Designed t...

In this article Action Research (AR) is addressed to determine its limitations and affordances as a research approach in audiovisual translation studies. A specific case of Participatory Action Research (PAR) is presented in the context of a Museum Project in Portugal – the MCCB project –, serving as a focus for the discussion of the main character...

The authors discuss the principles of “access for all” in museums, both physical and intellectual access. They explore this question of multisensory processing in neurologically typical individuals, and case studies of two Portuguese museums that experimented with implementation of an “access for all” approach to the presentation of their permanent...

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Making art accessible to blind patrons requires the ability to convey explicit and implicit visual messages through non-visual forms. Audio description is often seen as the best way to offer visual texts to blind people; however, one may query whether words alone are sufficient to convey the subtleties of art and to transport the emotional charge s...

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Considerable mileage has been covered since the early days, in the late 1950s, when audiovisual translation (AVT) began to be addressed as a subject in its own right. Concerns have moved from the dubbing/subtitling debate to more specific domains such as the analysis of issues pertaining to discourse analysis, technical constraints and audience des...

SDH Subtitling for the Deaf and HoH was first introduced on Portuguese commercial television in 2003, with the offer of teletext subtitling on the Brazilian telenovela Mulheres Apaixonadas. This would be done within an Action Research project which would bring together researchers, practitioners, providers and the Deaf community in a joint effort t...

It is no longer questionable whether d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers should be offered accessibility services on television. This matter has been widely discussed at a European level and most countries have taken legislative action, while televi-sion broadcasters have implemented different solutions – mainly closed captioning/teletext subtitling...