Alfabetização de crianças surdas em língua portuguesa

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to present reflections on the literacy of deaf children in Portuguese language -LP (GESSER, 2009; PEREIRA, 2011; KAIL, 2013; FREITAS, 2020). It seeks to understand elements that need to be considered in the processes ofteaching and learning the written word for deaf children. The analysis undertaken draws parallels with the literacy of hearing children, considering a crucial difference between these and deaf children: while for the hearing child, literacy in Portuguese language involves learning the writing of his own mother tongue, for the deaf child, this literacy involves learning the writing of a second language that is also oral and not signaled, as their mother tongue, the Brazilian Sign Language -Libras. It is pointed out, in conclusion, that it is essential to know the nature of sign languages and also to take Libras as a reference in the literacy process of deaf children in LP.