Raise Awareness in Society About Deafness: A Proposal with Learning Objects and Scenarios

In this article we propose a methodology to create Learning Objects (LO) to sensitize and provide awareness about deaf people. We observed that deaf people become unnoticed by hearing people because there is not visible physical difference in most cases. Hearing people become aware about them when they see the use of Sign Language, but at the end they can not to interact. By means of such LO we propose a mechanism to teach Mexican Sign Language (MSL) in specific scenarios that allows to hearing and deaf people interact by a common vocabulary. We envisage the idea of using everyday life scenarios such as “coffee shop”, “police station”, “doctor's office”, “municipal service”, among others, to acquaint the hearing people with MSL, and therefore let us to communicate with deaf people. As a case study we describe the setting of a “coffee shop” which is used to train hearing people as a complement of a course in MSL. Finally, according to enrolled students the material becomes very straightforward to use, besides it provides good support for practicing.