Abstract

WITKOSKI, Sílvia Andreis. The interface between the family and the right to bilingual education for deaf persons: breaking binary oppositions. ETD [online]. 2017, vol.19, n.3, pp.882-902. ISSN 1676-2592.  https://doi.org/10.20396/etd.v19i3.8646222.

This article seeks to discuss the interaction between the family and real access to bilingual education, revealing the intrinsic relationship between the possibilities of deaf people taking advantage of the right provided for in Decree No. 5,626 / 2005. This right presupposes the use of Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) as the child’s first language, and Portuguese, as the child’s second language. That order should be implemented before starting school and promoted in the family environment, once the child’s deafness is discovered. Most families, however, deny such an environment, instead choosing a path of normalization for their children. To break this cycle of denial of the right to bilingualism, it is considered crucial to question the essence surrounding the issues, inextricably articulated, between identity and difference, revisiting the pillars that build the idea in which the hearing child is viewed as "normal" and the deaf child as "abnormal", toward the denaturalization of the "norm."

Keywords : Deafness; Bilingualism; Family; Sign Language; Rights.

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