(IN)Acessibilidade de comunicacional da pessoa surda na saúde: relato de uma mãe surda e sua acompanhante em atendimento do SUS de um hospital de Maceió

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the importance of communication in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) in the health care of deaf pregnant women and to show how deaf people, in the 21st century, have their basic right to communication violated. As a theoretical methodological procedure, some theoretical discussions about the (in)communicability of deaf people in our Brazilian society will be presented and, as a reflexive effect, the reports of experiences of the two students of the Language-Libras course (FALE/UFAL), authors of this work, one as a deaf parturient and the other as a companion in a SUS ward at a hospital in Maceió, in May 2022. The stages of care constituted phenomena that became the object of research because it evidenced how much they experienced the lack of accessibility communication compromises emotional, psychic and social development, in addition to infringing the fundamental rights of deaf people. Therefore, it is imperative that health professionals know the deaf culture and Libras, in addition, that hospitals provide the service of translation and interpretation in sign language in the SUS, as recommended in Chapter VII of Decree No. 5,626/2005, guaranteeing the right to a dialogued and humanized care, to prevent the patient herself from taking responsibility for providing a TILSP to be attended in order to understand protocols and procedures. These reflections were based on discussions by authors such as Quadros (1997), Santos (2006), Silva (2006), Skliar (1997; 1998), Stefanelli and Carvalho (2005), Stelling (1999), Strobel (2015), Ribeiro-Fernandes (2021) and in the legal documents of the Brazilian State (2002; 2005; 2013) and of the State of Piauí (2021).