Teaching of the Brazilian Sign Language for the dentistry course in the northeast region of Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Ismael Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Alencar, Layla Beatriz Barroso de, Sousa, Samara Crislâny Araújo de, Araújo, Vitória Freitas de, Penha, Elizandra Silva da, Medeiros, Luanna Abílio Diniz Melquíades de, Guênes, Gymenna Maria Tenório, Alves, Maria Angélica Sátyro Gomes, Almeida, Manuella Santos Carneiro, Figueiredo, Camila Helena Machado da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/4232
• topic: Lengua de signos; Instituciones Académicas; Integración Educativa; Odontología.; Linguagem de sinais; Instituições Acadêmicas; Inclusão Educacional; Odontologia.; Sign language; Schools; Mainstreaming Education; Dentistry.

The objective of this aticles was to analyze the presence of the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) discipline in dentistry courses in northeastern Brazil. This study was cross-sectional and descriptive, with data collection available on the website of the Ministry of Education (MEC) and the Federal Council of Dentistry (CFO). All universities in northeastern Brazil that offer the dentistry course and were registered in the MEC or CFO were included, and institutions that did not present the curricular components on their respective sites were excluded. The research universe was 147 universities, however after the inclusion and exclusion criteria, a sample of 114 colleges was obtained. The information was recorded in the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) for Windows, version 20.0, and worked by descriptive statistics. Of the 114 institutions consulted, 71 (62.28%) presented the discipline of Libras, being 60 (84.51%) in private university and the other 11 (15.49%) in public universities, in addition, 66 (92.95%) are of the optional type and only 5 (7.05%) are of the mandatory type, with half-yearly workloads ranging from 20hrs to 80hrs in some states. Thus, it can be concluded that a significant portion of higher education institutions in the northeast region do not have Libras in the curriculum of the dentistry course, which can lead to difficulty in communicating with deaf patients.