A escrita inicial de uma criança surda com implante coclear

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

This research deals with a study on the construction of the initial writing of a deaf child with cochlear implant. The subject of this study is a seven-years-old boy, congenital deaf and son of deaf parents. He received the cochlear implant when he was four years old, and already fluent in LIBRAS (Brazilian Sign Language), its maternal language. Registered in regular school, its process of reading and writing was guided by the oralist methodology, which resigns the use of sign in this process. Studies on cochlear implant are recent in Brazil, but they emphasize basically on aural rehabilitation. However, studies on the pedagogical implications of the implant practically inexist. Some studies from other countries relate the benefits of this device and the achievement of academic success of its users. Visual experience is an important phenomenon on deaf people and must be explored in inclusive classrooms. From the historical-cultural perspective of human development, writing is understood as a cultural element of social learning. The results of this study point out that other factors deserve to be considered when the child who receives the implant is already a signer. This research has a case study delineation and demanded direct comments in the classroom, with focus on the activities of writing. The microgenetic analysis of these productions, as well as the analysis of interviews with parents and teachers allowed the construction of data within three referring categories: drawing, spontaneous writing and directed writing. The results had pointed that the slow development of the writing of the subject was due to literacy process been constructed based on the phonic method in the activities of classroom. This situation generated low attention level, although he has a strong intellectual curiosity. Strategies of multimodal communication could promote learning of the deaf child, as well as cooperative learning with his hearing peers, generating shared construction of meanings. One concludes that although Sign Language is not to the semiotic element which mediates the process of schooling of the investigated child, it constitutes his main instrument of thought and resists in all ways to its negation. The boy signs while he carries through his tasks and he teaches sign language to his peers and teacher. Data constructed propose that a bilingual education, with the recognition and use of sign language would take better care to the unique writing development of the mentioned child.

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implante coclear educação bilíngüe writing cochlear implant surdez bilingual education escrita educacao língua de sinais deafness

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