Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Karabulut Ş., Okyayuz A. Ş., Erkazancı Durmuş H., Oral A. Z., Bilgin M., Altuntaş O., et al.
Erasmus Projesi, 2019 - 2022
Metal
sector covers many sectors such as machinery, manufacturing, automotive,
defense industry. Machine elements are standard elements for generating energy
or power, transmitting, modifying or accumulating and creating mechanical
systems. Standard machine elements are used from the energy sector to the metal
sector. With the developments in technology and production systems, the task
and working principles of standard machine elements need to be made clearer for
the deaf students in the vocational training and the workers at firms. Machine
elements are important because they are used in almost all sectors. The firm
faces a lack of skilled labor which even will be growing in the future.
Companies in some branches have difficulties to find employees, especially in
the metal sector. Thus the role of disabled people as labor force becomes more
important. Adults with hearing loss or deaf people have a much higher
unemployment rate. Integrating them into the job market is a key challenge;
more than 50 % of deaf people in Europe and Turkey are unemployed, and those
who are employed are often in low-skilled and low-paid jobs. Today, education
for them heavily focused on school and apprenticeships, rather than long-term
employment. After starting to work in the company, hearing-impaired people or
people with hearing loss have difficulties in adapting to the company and have
communication problems within the company. The following are some of the
challenges that people experience after employment; Employer Misconceptions and
Attitudes: The biggest contribution to the high unemployment rate in the Deaf
Community is employers’ misconceptions of them and attitudes toward deaf
people. The firm may view deaf candidates as unproductive, weak or
unintelligent, all misconceptions that are unfounded in fact. In addition,
higher expectations are often placed on them to process knowledge and
communicate as quickly as hearing employees without support. When expectations
are not met, employers may see their deaf employees as incompetent. In doing
this, the company fails to recognize the true potential of a deaf employee.
Barriers to Job Advancement: Deaf individuals or individuals with hearing loss
seek job advancement within the company, but they are often put in a
disadvantaged position when they do not have access to important information
exchanged within the company. Missing out on this ongoing incidental
information prevents them from building rapport and forming key relationships
with coworkers and supervisors which are essential for job promotions. Briefly,
discrimination plays a large part in the working lives of deaf people, and many
deaf people are forced to exit employment because of it. Furthermore, attitudes
of employers and colleagues can prevent deaf people from fulfilling their
potential, and often lead them to feel isolated at work. Also, it is very
difficult for a hearing impaired to have a career in the firm because of the
misunderstanding. In addition, there is no developed technical sign language
for hearing impaired employees working on the production line. Hearing-impaired
workers cannot express the machine elements with a wide range of applications
in sign language. Therefore they have communication problems in the firm and
cannot benefit from the technical training provided within the company.
Technical sign language in the specific sector should be created and be given
related training at the firm. This training can help emphasize the value that
deaf employees and employees with hearing loss bring to their companies. Such
training helps to eliminate misconceptions and stereotypes of them, how best to
collaborate with them, and how to better advocate for them in employment
settings. Also, companies should take advantage to employ and maximize the
skills of them. By strengthening communication with them by providing equal
access to meetings and task instructions will help them do their jobs
efficiently. This will allow hearing employees to communicate directly with other
employees and vice versa. For the reasons mentioned above, the project purpose
is providing technical training to deaf people and people with hearing loss
through video contents available to all users on a website augmented reality by
creating sign language for machine elements in the metal sector as well as
providing occupational guidelines to the firm in order to increase their long-term
employment rate and communication in the firm in order to facilitate the
adaption to the firm and have a career at the firm and to increase the rate of Call
2019 Round 1 KA2 - Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good
practices KA202 - Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training in
this sector. Partners will be able to implement and develop a more creative
approach to the difficult topic such as creating sign language of technical
training. This cooperation among partners will also enhance a more
comprehensive look at sign language and adaption of them to the firm.