Processos comunicativos na surdez de acordo com relatos de jovens surdos

This text aims to describe how deaf young people report the communicative process they experienced at home and at school with listener mothers/teachers. Three deaf young people, aged between 18 and 30, narrated their communicative experiences at home/school contexts, through video interviews recorded with the participation of a professional interpreter of LIBRAS (the Brazilian Sign Language). The results disclosed the non-acceptance of deafness at home/school environment, which was emphasized by the deaf people’s perceptions of constant expectations from mothers and teachers of hearing improvement and speech development. It was evidenced that the communicative processes experienced by the young interviewees were difficult and interfered in the academic development and in the relationships at home.