Narrativas autobiográficas de mães ouvintes não fluentes em libras: considerações sobre a relação entre comunicação e desenvolvimento de surdos

Abstract

This master's thesis is composed of two manuscripts. The first is a literature review. We interesse for the topic the communicative relationship between hearing mothers and their deaf children. The objective of the review was to highlight aspects in the production of knowledge about communication in cases of deafness. The bibliographic material was found in different virtual databases. After used different filters, we choose five articles for analysis, that consisted of evaluation two aspects: a) the arguments that ground different conceptions of deafness and b) the arguments that ground the conception of communication and its role in the development of deaf people. In the results linked to the first aspect, we highlight two approaches to the conception of deafness: clinical-therapeutic and b) socio- nthropological. In the results linked to the second aspect, we highlight that the articles referenced a dialogical conception of communication eminently related to the development of deaf people. The second manuscript consists of research's report that aimed to investigate emerging communicative processes in the stories told by hearing mothers who are not fluent in Libras, about their relationship with a deaf child. Our hypothesis was that the absence of Libras mediation harms the development of deaf people. Autobiographical narratives were the theory and method of the present study. Three hearing mothers who are not fluent in Libras they have deaf children, were the participants. These mothers narrated about nowadays, past and future of the communicative experiences with their children. In the results we highlight a) communicative strategies that varied between the use of gestures, oralization, typing and Libras mediation; b) negotiation of mothers' meanings about the role of Libras in the development of their deaf child. We concluded that the hypothesis was confirmed and that mothers recognized the role of Libras in the psychological and social development of their deaf child. In an evaluation of these results, we argue that these recognizing is necessary to implement public policies aimed at facilitating access for hearing mothers of deaf children to training in Libras.