A Importância de Ensinar a Libras desde a Educação Infantil

Abstract

While carrying out my work as a teacher in public Early Childhood Education in the municipality of Santa Helena -Paraná, in the nursery room I came across a situation in which I received a hearing student son of deaf parents. I was able to witness that communication with the son was done through Libras, the boy was only 4 months old, this caught my attention, as I know a little about communicating in Libras, I was always called to communicate with parents not only in the classroom, but in all the premises of the institution. At this moment I realized how necessary it is to start this learning process as early as possible, and how essential it is for other teachers and students to also have this learning, because this student had gone through all the stages with different teachers with his colleagues until the end of his cycle at the institution, with this everyone would be contributing to the total development of this child, where their mother tongue would continue to be prioritized and the second oral language would be exercised, thus having a bilingual education. What touched me on this issue to explain this topic was to know that the same family has another hearing daughter, five years before she went through all the stages of Early Childhood Education, the student and the family did not have any professional who knew Libras making communication between institution and family difficult, As the girl grew up, she herself signaled the conversation to her parents, I am introducing a girl who was only 4 years old. If this continues in this way, deaf students or hearing students of deaf parents continued to be on the margins of an exclusionary society, showing that education and teachers are only for hearing students from families of hearing parents. If these attitudes change nothing and no requirement would be imposed for a deaf child or hearing child of deaf parents to be served, it would be another achievement for the deaf community and for this family in particular. For these reasons I propose interventions in teacher training meetings promoting significant learning, first presenting about the deaf culture and Libras through a dialogue and with the help of a booklet with the main signs and throughout the training the level of learning Libras would be raised, and in this way all teachers would be learning and teaching Libras to their students, In this way, they would not be afraid to communicate with deaf people.