A Reconfiguração Política da Educação de Surdos

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Maria do Céu
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v3i1.4560

In the last decades, the World Federation of the Deaf and the European Union of the Deaf have been fighting for a new perspective of Deafness and Deaf education. In the European Council, such demands resulted in several recommendations of the European Parliament for its member States. Although the demands have a cultural basis, the policies for this population are still included in the frameworks for action for persons with disabilities. In Portugal, the situation is similar. Deaf education is included in Special Education. In this context, recent legislation has recognized the importance of a bilingual education and a Portuguese Sign Language Syllabus was published in 2008. It becomes necessary however to assure that the creation of this new curricular area means a recognition of this language as a cultural marker of the deaf community and not only as means of facilitating communication between its members.