13º Congresso Brasileiro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Design

Considering the importance of accessibility for people with visual impairments since childhood, this paper applies the generative process of meaning from the discursive semiotic to understand the construction of meaning in the children’s book “Adélia Sonhadora”, from the Collection Adélia, accessible to visually impaired children. Composed by several semiotic systems, such as verbal writing, visual, tactile and olfactory, the semiotics is a methodological opportunity to analyze this syncretic material and contribute to future accessible children's books. After the presentation of the object of study, the plan of content is analyzed by the three levels of its course (discursive, narrative and fundamental), discovering the possible semantic opposition /real/ versus /imaginary/, both in the narrative of the character and in the course made by the reader. The plan of expression is also analysed through the plastic semiotic, observing how its categories relate to the plan of content.