Escolas de surdos: avanços, retrocessos e realidades

Abstract

Descriptive phenomenological approach to qualitative data collected at two schools who work with deaf people in the city of Manaus, State School Augusto Carneiro dos Santos and Filippo Smaldone Institute. The schools were chosen because they were originally considered "schools of the deaf", because they attend only to this specific group. It is a case study whose subjects were teachers and education professionals (both deaf and hearing) who work in the schools investigated. The research aimed to investigate the advances and setbacks from the National Education Policy in the Perspective of Special Education Inclusive/2008 (BRAZIL, 2008), in the context of schools working with deaf people in the city of Manaus, identifying movements, speeches, pressures, resistance and political consequences of current public and results entailed for the deaf schools for the school routine, for teachers and education professionals as well as for deaf students. It is understood that the microcosm of the school and its surroundings can help in a thorough analysis of the main issues involved in Deaf Education in these times of post-National Policy on Special Education. In the case of deaf people in the area of education, is of great importance to address the issue of inclusion. Currently, this has been the political leadership in Brazil, which emphasizes the rights of all students with disabilities (sensory, physical or mental) to be common in schools. As for the results, we highlight advances such as the establishment of the schools should provide a bilingual approach for deaf, having Pounds as a first language and Portuguese as a second language and, the possibility that teachers have some knowledge of Pounds. Regarding the setbacks, it was found that under the National Policy on Special Education, the deaf schools are being closed or adulterated as individual schools and turned into ESA (Educational Service Specialist), deaf students are being spread in a variety of regular schools unprepared to meet this specific audience.