Abstract

CAMATTI, Liane  and  LUNARDI-LAZZARIN, Márcia Lise. The Urgency of Early Diagnosis of Deafness and its Effects on the Conceptual Field of the Education for the Deaf. Rev. bras. educ. espec. [online]. 2020, vol.26, n.4, pp.769-778.  Epub Dec 09, 2020. ISSN 1980-5470.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-54702020v26e0130.

The early diagnosis of deafness has been at the center of policies directed to hearing-impaired children. The aim of this essay is to discuss political issues and contextual aspects of the practice of diagnosis. A bibliographic research was done, addressing the theme from post-structuralist studies, especially for materials that look at childhood, disability and the contemporary political and social context. Historically, deafness, when it does not receive investments, places the deaf in an unfavorable position in the economic and social game. The practice of diagnosis makes sense in a neoliberal rationality, which is concerned with managing the collectivity. Early diagnosis of deafness serves countless interests and objectives due to the multiplicity of interventions that are now possible. With this essay, it was possible to realize that early diagnosis triggers techniques that align the principles of early prevention, identification and intervention. Although Brazilian health networks are precarious to make an early diagnosis, the determination of disability occurs in those networks. The diagnosis ceases to be a set of tests and starts to appear as a policy on life that determines the condition of the disability and places the child in a permanent position of corrigibility.

Keywords : Early diagnosis; Education for the deaf; Neoliberalism.

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