Teaching Introductory Physics to Visually Impaired Learners

Teaching Introductory Physics to Visually Impaired Learners provides a gateway to understanding the difficulties encountered by this audience and provides ways for teachers to embrace this challenge.

Antonio Carlos Fontes dos Santos is a Full Professor in the Atomic and Molecular Collisions Laboratory, Department of Nuclear Physics, Institute of Physics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He performs research on ion-atom collisions, multiple ionization, target ionization, mass spectrometry.

Marcio Velloso Silveira has a posdoctoral degree at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has a Degree in Physics Teaching from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1997), Specialization in Science and Biology Teaching from UFRJ (2016), Professional Master’s Degree in Physics Teaching from UFRJ (2016) and a PhD in Teaching and History of Mathematics and Physics from UFRJ (2021).