PERSPECTIVAS PARA O ENSINO DA ESCRITA DE ALUNOS SURDOS USUÃRIOS DE LIBRAS

This paper presents a discussion on the challenge of the appropriation of writing of deaf student users of Brazilian Sign Language – LIBRAS. The advent of bilingual education proposal boosted the academic performance of deaf individuals in Brazil, however a significant portion of deaf people users of Librasshow serious difficulties in reading and writing, even at the end of basic and higher education. In the search for the best solution for this problem, some authors, based on cognitive neuropsychology, propose the adoption of a fully bilingualism, to ensure the deaf the acquisition of sign writing, internationally known as signwriting system, as their first written language. Despite recognition of the advantages of this new domain system written by the deaf, it is considered appropriate that the teaching of writing in Portuguese is a goal to be achieved in the field of deafness