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The goal of this work is to present what our research with hearing children from Deaf parents, acquiring Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) and Portuguese, and American Sign Language (ASL) and English (Lillo-Martin et. al. 2010) have to say about bilingual development. The data analyzed in this study is part of the database of spontaneous interactions collected longitudinally, alternating contexts of sign and spoken languages. Moreover, there is data from experimental studies with tests in both pairs of languages that is incorporated to the present study. A general view about previous studies related to bimodal bilingual acquisition with hearing children, from "deaf" parents, will be presented. Then, we will show some linguistics aspects of this kind of acquisition found in our study and discuss about bilingual acquisition.
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An interesting linguistic phenomenon that happens in the interaction among bilingual people is code-switching. In this paper, we are investigating code-switching among oral Brazilian Portuguese and Brazilian Sign Language - Libras, in a same enunciative chain, with the goal of identifying and analyzing the use of code-switching in the speech of a child and an adult (both hearing from deaf parents), interacting in an intermodal bilingual context, with deaf and hearing interlocutors. Code-switching in languages, in this case, occurs when a person stops to speak in Portuguese and he/she alternates to sign. This present research is a starting study, with qualitative analysis of data. Our corpus is composed of nine sections of interactions in Libras and oral Portuguese, recorded in video, part of the Bimodal Bilingual Development Project from UFSC. The data shows that adult and child's characteristics of code-switching seem to have similarities and differences. The adult seems to switch more worried about the course of the interaction. On the other hand, the child did not seem to use code-switching for specific pragmatic reasons. In regard to the switching extension, it is noted that both the child and the adult used more than one word sentences. The role of the interlocutors seems to be decisive in the interactions investigated here - especially for the adult, since the child is still acquiring awareness about the role of the interlocutor in an interaction.
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This study compared the performance in phonological memory tasks of bimodal bilíngual hearing children (children of deaf parents) and deaf children with cochlear implant (children of deaf parents and hearing parents), with different contexts of access to Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). We used two tests: Portuguêse Pseudowords (Santos and Bueno, 2003) and Libras Pseudosigns (developed by researchers from Development Bimodal Bilíngual Project). Moreover, we included two control groups, one of deaf children, growing up with Libras, with deaf parents, and the other of hearing adults Codas, bimodal bilínguals, with deaf parents. In the analysis of the results, initially, in regard to the performance among the groups tested, it was found that the bimodal bilíngual children had higher scores in both tests. However, when we analyzed the performance of the deaf child with cochlear implant, with deaf parents, with full access to sign language, compared to the other children with cochlear implant, with restricted access to Libras, we found that this child has a similar performance to the Coda children. The cochlear-implanted children with restricted access to Libras, therefore with more access to Portuguêse, had lower scores in both tests, being the worst score for the Portuguêse test. The results shown that children with cochlear implant can have benefits when they have access to Libras, having similar performances to hearing bimodal bilíngual children.
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A educação de surdos está sendo estruturada em vários estados brasileiros, buscando atender às diretrizes nacionais para a educação especial (resolução CNE/CEB n. 2, de 11 de setembro de 2001, a lei 10.098/94, de 23 de março de 1994, especialmente o capítulo VII, que legisla sobre a acessibilidade à língua de sinais, e a lei 10.436, 24 de abril de 2002, que dispõe sobre a Língua Brasileira de Sinais). Neste artigo, demonstra-se a estruturação da política pública para a educação de surdos do estado de Santa Catarina com suas proposições, as decisões e os rumos que a implementação dessa política está tomando. Além disso, apresenta-se uma análise crítica das relações que tal proposta tem com os desejos e lutas dos movimentos surdos. Num desdobramento, verifica-se que a movimentação no estado catarinense depende de vários fatores que extrapolam os aspectos legais, tais como: questões de ordem política e econômica e dependentes dos profissionais envolvidos que estão em formação.
Education of the deaf is being structured in various Brazilian States to obey the national guidelines for special education (Resolution CNE/CEB n. 2, from September 11, 2001; Act n° 10.098/94, from March 23, 1994, especially the chapter VII, that regulates accessibility to sign language; and act n° 10.436, from April 24, 2002, that deals with the Brazilian sign language). This paper shows how the public policies for the education of the deaf are being implemented in the State of Santa Catarina, their proposals, decisions and the trends such implementation follows. It also presents a critical analysis of the relationships that these proposals maintain with the desires and fights of the movements for the deaf. As a development, it reveals that the actions in the State of Santa Catarina depend both on various factors that far exceed the legal aspects: as, for example, issues of political and economic order, and on the professionals involved, who are still training.
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Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Língua de Sinais , Educação de Pessoas com Deficiência Auditiva , Política PúblicaRESUMO
O objetivo deste trabalho e apresentar uma reflexao invertendo epistemologicamente o problema da inclusao. As questoes dos ouvintes no mundo dos surdos serve de referencia para uma analise aprofundada entre as quantidade obscenas e manipulaveis e os hibridismos consideranso-se as culturas, as linguas, as identidades e as diferencas. Faz-se, entao, uma discussao sobre o discurso e a pratica cultural em torno dos outros, da alteridade, adquirindo novas dimensoes epistemologicas, politicas e pedagogicas.