Contexto escolar e o ensino para surdos: a libras como instrumento de educação e de identidade

This article discusses Libras as an instrument for school learning and empowerment ofthe deaf community. The objective of this paper is to bring reflections on theconstitution of the culture and identity of deaf people with late acquisition of Libras inthe school context, verifying sociocultural, pedagogical and interdisciplinary actionsthat occur in the teaching and learning process of these students. Goldfeld, Quadros andKarnopp, Gesser, Rojo and Perlin, among other authors, support the theoreticaldiscussions. The Projetos Politicos Pedagogicos of the investigated schools werestudied, and literacy actions proposed for deaf children. It was also confirmed therelationship between late acquisition of sign language and school difficulties among thedeaf students investigated, as well as the need to use Libras as a language ofcommunication and interaction between professionals and other students of theseschools.