Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work presents a virtual instrument development that is going to support the teaching and learning process in Geography, for the 3rd grade of Elementary School at Public Schools of Santa Maria City RS Brazil. In this educational scenery, one intends to provide an alternative for the cognitive and social-affective development of the students. The proposed software approach the Spacial Orientation, attending to the teachers instrumental necessities. This constitutes an education modality which makes possible the innovation of teaching procedures, the utilization of various eletronic means of interaction, providing practicability in an extra-school education. / Este trabalho apresenta desenvolvimento de um instrumento virtual de apoio ao processo ensino e aprendizagem de geografia, para a 3ª série do ensino fundamental das escolas da Rede Pública Municipal de Santa Maria RS Brasil. Neste cenário educacional, pretende-se proporcionar uma alternativa para o desenvolvimento cognitivo e sócio-afetivo dos alunos. O uso do software proposto aborda o tema orientação espacial, atendendo às necessidades instrumentais dos professores, possibilitando a inovação dos procedimentos de ensino, a utilização de diversos meios eletrônicos de comunicação, viabilizando uma educação extraescolar.

The thesis is focussed on social work with visually impaired clients. The theoretical part deals with eyesight, anatomy, physiology of the eye and various visual defects; further, on personality of handicapped individuals, quality of their lives, provided social assistance, methods of typhlo- rehabilitation and appropriate utensils. The application section searches by means of qualitative research, namely semi-structured interview and observation, complex functioning of an asylum for the handicapped - Home for Visually Impaired Clients PALATA, Prague. The dissertation presents, according to the findings, personalities of the interviewed, their subjective difficulties, the way they cope with the obstacles, their level of contentment, and considers bounds of assistance possibilities from the social background. The objective of the thesis is to describe options of social work with visually impaired clients. To present their personalities and difficulties they deal with due to their handicap. And as well as to show how they cope with them and how their social environment can help with the acceptance of their impairment. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)