Abstract

The Inclusion of Deaf Students in Higher Education: Didactic-Pedagogical Strategies Applied to the Teaching and Learning Process

Highlights

  • The education of deaf people began in Brazil with the creation of the Instituto dos Surdos Mudos, in 1857, in Rio de Janeiro, currently known as the National Institute for the Education of the Deaf - INES

  • With the advent of major regulatory frameworks for the education of people with disabilities, such as the Salamanca Declaration [2], coined in 1994, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, approved by the UN in 2006 [3] and the National Special Education Policy from the Perspective of In clusive Education [4], there was an advance in policies, legal documents and actions aimed at the inclusion and accessibility of deaf people to teaching and school learning, with the strengthening of actions for the implementation and structuring of LIBRAS (Brazilian Sign Language) as the official language of this population segment in educational establishments

  • Three teachers and one student with hearing impairment participated in this study, all linked to the Civil Engineering course of a Higher Education Institution in the interior of the state of São Paulo

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Introduction

With the advent of major regulatory frameworks for the education of people with disabilities, such as the Salamanca Declaration [2], coined in 1994, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, approved by the UN in 2006 [3] and the National Special Education Policy from the Perspective of In clusive Education [4], there was an advance in policies, legal documents and actions aimed at the inclusion and accessibility of deaf people to teaching and school learning, with the strengthening of actions for the implementation and structuring of LIBRAS (Brazilian Sign Language) as the official language of this population segment in educational establishments. Libras must be recognized as a legal means of communication and expression for the deaf community. In this sense, according to the aforementioned law [6], it can be learned that Libras represents

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