Book launch to favor the inclusion of people with disabilities

The 21 of March in the Multiple Use Room of the University of Azuay was carried out the presentation of the book "Proposal of strategies and recommendations to favor the inclusion of people with sensory disabilities in cultural spaces".

For the inauguration of the act was attended by the board of directors formed by: Francisco Arteaga, Rector of the university; Martha Cobos, Academic Vice-Rector; Jacinto Güillén, Vice-Rector of Investigations; Juan Carlos Quezada and Jéssica Salinas, authors of the book, and Camila Torres Orellana, professor at the University.

After the words of welcome in charge of the Rector intervened Ana Cristina Arteaga, director of the project, who gave explained that the work arose from an initiative of four students of the School of Special Education of the University in the year 2016, to later be Jessica Salinas and Juan Carlos Quezada, who concretized this idea of ​​adapting cultural environments for people with different types of disabilities.

"This project was born from the problem that people with sensory disabilities have in relation to cultural centers, although they would like to access this type of event, they can not, for reasons of barriers, whether they be attitudinal, architectural or of another category", expressed Quezada.

"We have proposed, by means of categories, recommendations so that, in this case, each museum chooses to offer this service to include this type of people and that they can also enjoy art and other cultural spaces, that they can feel the textures and all the alternatives to prepare for them, "added Salinas.

The main idea of ​​this book is to propose to cultural entities or of any other type, and to the general public, strategies that range from guides prepared to detail what would be the route of a cultural space, to architectural adaptations to facilitate the movement of people with sensory disabilities through the different scenarios that this has.