A inclusão de crianças surdas na educação infantil: reflexões sobre discursos e práticas de educadores

Abstract

Thi reearch aim to develop a simultaneous discussion of inclusives educational Policies and Education of the Deaf children. The focus on Deaf people is the result of other studies and the need to scale the effects caused by this population and also mesure how this population is seen by society as people with special need. This feature has been superimposed when dealing with deaf child, incluing on the child ́s identity feature, neglecting that they need to take part in the processes related to children development stages. For a long time, parents went to the clinic intending to transform their deaf child in a majority language speaker. Oral hearing. That stated, we developed a research that aimed to identify the Reference Centres for Early Childhood Education( CREIS) that educate deaf children in the city of João Pessoa and we also analyzed the speedches of the educators envolved with deaf students and its possible implications, considering the importance of Early Childhood Education for the deaf and hence the need for an adequate training for the professionals who have to work with this target audience. After we had visited the CREIS and we had identified those that had frequent deaf children being educated, we interviewed the teachers of the institution, trying to find out their point of views about teaching deaf child. We also observated the teaching practices in order to understand how the challenge of working with deaf children we dealed in early education. The results of the analysis point to the difficulties in including deaf in regular childhood education, with tendency to disregard what is being a childand, in particular, the importance of Libras ( Brazilian Sign Languagem) as deaf child right that can help them at their academic process, cultural indentity and otherness.