Atendimento educacional especializado: reflexões sobre as práticas de professores surdos

This research aims to understand how deaf teachers are able to build knowledge in deaf students, considering different ages, educational levels and linguistic diversity of pupils during the Specialized Educational Service (SES) in sign language for deaf students, in a Specialized Educational Service Center (SESC), located in the central region in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais (JF/MG). Concerning specific goals, one tried to understand how SES is thought built by teachers and analyze their use of language practice in order to develop the services. For development of the search, three sing language teachers' educational practices were watched and recorded during SES in sign language and linked their activities with their institutional and individual planning in the second semestre of 2019. The data analysis showed that the teachers responsible for the SES in sign language, considering their higher educational degree, preferred the language usage from isolated lexical items apart from the enunciate context, practice that besides limisting verbal interactions between students and between teachers and students, contributed for the silencing of various social languages of students. Considering SES in sing language, one noted that in spite of the teacher planning ando ne attempt to get the approached themes closer to situations lived by pupils, a few results could be observed, because of the delay in the language development and little knowlegde of basic schooling concept showed by students. In spite of the visibility conferred by the county to the educational work in sign language developed by deaf teachers, as the one observed in SESC/Downtown, one concluded that is has not been enough to guarantee sign language students'assimilation and learning taking into account the reduced timetable and timing of each service, the high level of absences of pupils and the poor pedagogical formation of teachers, who, often dialoguing with their own backgrounds, reproduced situations live...