Social responsibility: strategies of a hei for the inclusion of the deaf in the academic environment responsabilidade social: estratégias de uma ies para a inclusão de surdos no ambiente acadêmico

This article expatiate about strategies of a Higher Education Institution for inclusion of deaf people in the academic environment. The main objective is to identify if a private Higher Education Institution in Sertão Central has strategies for inclusion of deaf people follow by specific objectives: i) to identify the existence of planning for inclusion of deaf people in the academic environment, ii) to know the reasons that mobilized the institution regarding the inclusion, iii) to identify the inclusive actions developed by the institution to include deaf people. This is a qualitative research methodology, with exploratory and bibliographic bias, field research and an interview using a semi-structured script was used to collect data applied to HEI managers and coordinators. After analysis, it was possible to identify that the HEI built a planning based on an external demand, developing actions for these students and members of the deaf community of the region are embraced in an inclusive way, breaking the attitudinal barrier and facilitating communication for these people to have their needs met in the academic environment, reinforcing the policy of social responsibility practiced and adding more value to the institutional image.