SPECIAL NEEDS

ANSWER EXAMPLES

Visual

impairment

Difficulty in organizing graduate courses and activities remotely

The combination of all times and obligations of a personal, professional, family nature. The distancing made all activities difficult, although it allowed distant people to participate in some activities.

Having to learn to use online work tools. Readjust the teaching plan for remote activities (exclude texts from books because there is no PDF available/legal). Record lessons. Make Lives. Working from home ALL THE TIME. The invasion of the domestic routine by work activities at all hours of the day and EVERY DAY, even on weekends. Not being able to leave the house. Having to isolate yourself from co-workers and students. Not being able to go to the library. Impossibility to participate in person in newsstands and congresses. Being prevented from traveling, from meeting relatives, friends and loved ones.

Excessive remote activities with physical and psychological effects

We are being threatened by the virus and also by political conduct. The feeling of threat predates the virus for this reason. Our fragility as professors is very great and greatly influences our mental state and performance. It also influences our online activities.

Very difficult to guide, even more so without contact with the samples being studied.

Hearing deficiency

Difficulty in communicating and transmitting program content.

Difficulty in conducting laboratory experiments.

Communication difficulty.

Difficulty in adapting to the virtual world.

Difficulty in adapting teaching material.

Teaching a screen (no student interaction), working 100% of the time looking at a computer screen.

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Impossibility of face-to-face meetings with students and colleagues; impossibility of conducting in-person research activities; complete dependence on digital media to get the job done and communicate.