Análise das disciplinas de LIBRAS nos cursos de formação inicial em Pedagogia da UNESP

Pós-graduação em Educação - FCT

Surdez: um estudo da formação continuada oferecida aos professores em uma diretoria de ensino no interior do estado de São Paulo

Pós-graduação em Educação Escolar - FCLAR

Methodological proposal for elaboration of learning materials in sing language in university teaching

[EN] Hearing impairment may constitute a barrier for accessing to information and communication in public places. Since the oral communication forms the basis of the learning process, this problem becomes of particular relevance at schools and universities. To cope with this situation is not enough to provide a textual translation for people with hearing disabilities, society via educational authorities must facilitate alternatives that improve access to information and education to this collective. According to this reality, the possibility of having an alternative tool of communication based in the Spanish Sign Language (SSL) emerges as a contribution to help overcoming the communication obstacles that the students with this difficulty usually find.

The universal language of Freemasonry

Freimaurer verwenden eine spezielle Art von Kommunikation: Zeichensprache, Metaphern, Symbole, Neologismen, Fachsprachen, rituelle 'Reisen' usw. Untersucht werden soll hier der masonische Anspruch, eine 'Universalsprache' zu besitzen. Das Gerüst dieser Dissertation ist ein Vergleich der ganzen Bandbreite der Freimaurerei - Orden für Männer, Frauen, Jugendliche, Farbige, sowie quasi-masonische Freizeitclubs - mit nachahmerischen Fraternitäten, wie z.B. den frühen amerikanischen Versicherungsgesellschaften und deren Kommunikationsmodellen. Die experimentelle Methode der Autorin schließt die Erforschung freimaurerischer und anderer bruderschaftlicher Quellen der letzten drei Jahrhunderte ein, sowie Besuche freimaurerischer Institutionen und Interviews mit Freimaurern. Diese Aktivitäten führten zu dem Ergebnis, daß - während die Symbole allgemein anwendbar sind - die schriftliche Freimaurersprache nicht in allen Ländern uniform ist. Die ethischen Lehren, die aus der symbolischen Freimaurerkommunikation gezogen werden sollen, haben einen internationalen Standard erreicht. So ist die Freimaurersprache seit der offiziellen Gründung der Freimaurerei im Jahre 1717 immer noch lebendig. Die rituelle Phraseologie der frühen nordamerikanischen Gewerkschaften und Versicherungsgesellschaften hingegen ist entweder verloren gegangen oder stellt nur noch pompöse Worthülsen dar, die sich um ein weltliches Thema - wie Versicherungen - ranken.

Patrol team language identification system for DARPA RATS P1 evaluation

This paper describes the language identification (LID) system developed by the Patrol team for the first phase of the DARPA RATS (Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech) program, which seeks to advance state of the art detection capabilities on audio from highly degraded communication channels. We show that techniques originally developed for LID on telephone speech (e.g., for the NIST language recognition evaluations) remain effective on the noisy RATS data, provided that careful consideration is applied when designing the training and development sets. In addition, we show significant improvements from the use of Wiener filtering, neural network based and language dependent i-vector modeling, and fusion.

Cerebral organization for language in deaf and hearing subjects: Biological constraints and effects of experience

Cerebral organization during sentence processing in English and in American Sign Language (ASL) was characterized by employing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at 4 T. Effects of deafness, age of language acquisition, and bilingualism were assessed by comparing results from (i) normally hearing, monolingual, native speakers of English, (ii) congenitally, genetically deaf, native signers of ASL who learned English late and through the visual modality, and (iii) normally hearing bilinguals who were native signers of ASL and speakers of English. All groups, hearing and deaf, processing their native language, English or ASL, displayed strong and repeated activation within classical language areas of the left hemisphere. Deaf subjects reading English did not display activation in these regions. These results suggest that the early acquisition of a natural language is important in the expression of the strong bias for these areas to mediate language, independently of the form of the language. In addition, native signers, hearing and deaf, displayed extensive activation of homologous areas within the right hemisphere, indicating that the specific processing requirements of the language also in part determine the organization of the language systems of the brain.

O papel da interação no processo de ensino-aprendizagem de português para alunos surdos em uma escola inclusiva

In this article, it is discussed the role of interaction in the process of teaching and learning Portuguese of deaf students at an inclusive school. In the context where the research took place, the hearing teacher does not understand sign language, and there are, in her classroom, hearing students and four deaf students, being three of them sign language users. As the communication between the hearing teacher and the deaf students occurred in different codes - Portuguese and Brazilian sign language - and having a social-interactional approach of language (MOITA LOPES, 1986; FREIRE, 1999), we observed if the interaction among the subjects enabled the deaf students to understand what was being taught. The results showed that the fact of having four deaf students in the same classroom allowed them to work in a cooperative way. Besides, the sign language became more visible in this institution. On the other hand, the interaction between the teacher and her deaf students revealed to be of little significance to the learning process of this small group.

Brincar : uma opção para a interação entre mãe ouvinte/filho surdo

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Assessing deaf and hearing children`s communication in Brazil

In Brazil there are no specific tests for either signed or spoken language for deaf children. A protocol evaluating communicative abilities independent of modality of communication (sign language or spoken language), and comprising assessments of (a) pragmatic profile; (b) modality of communication and linguistic level; (c) complexity of communication; and (d) style and efficacy of communication between parent and child was administered to 127 deaf and hearing children. The children, aged 3-6 years old, were distributed in three groups: 20 with severe hearing loss, 40 with profound hearing loss and 67 normally hearing. Deaf children were found to be delayed, independent of their linguistic level and preferred modality of communication. The protocol in this study proved to be an useful instrument for gathering relevant information about the three groups of preschool children`s communicative abilities, and particularly suitable for use in countries where standardized assessments are not available. Learning outcomes: The reader will be introduced to the use of an assessment protocol comprising its development, application and data analysis. The reader will be informed about assessment of deaf children`s preferred modality of communication, by the participation of a bilingual (sign language user) professional. Communication abilities can be assessed independently of the linguistic modality. In developing countries in general, where simple and easy to administer assessments tools are scarce, such a protocol is of specific value. (c) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

A educação bilingue em idade tardia: um projecto de intervenção com um aluno surdo sem linguagem

Partindo dos pressupostos que a língua gestual é a língua natural das crianças surdas e que a língua portuguesa escrita assumirá um estatuto de segunda língua para estas crianças, desenvolveu-se um projecto de intervenção para uma criança surda, procurando favorecer a aprendizagem da Língua Gestual Portuguesa e a iniciação à leitura e à escrita em português. O projecto foi realizado em contexto escolar com um aluno surdo de 11 anos, sem linguagem, matriculado no 1º ano de escolaridade do primeiro ciclo do ensino básico de uma escola de referência para o ensino bilingue de alunos surdos. O projecto decorreu durante onze semanas, em articulação com a formadora de LGP, e visou desenvolver no aluno algumas competências essenciais nos domínios da LGP e Português Escrito. Foram desenvolvidas actividades que se centraram na compreensão e expressão da LGP, com a aquisição de léxico básico e das estruturas sintácticas mais frequentes para interagir, assim como no reconhecimento, identificação e reprodução de palavras de uso corrente e pequenas frases em Português escrito. Pretendíamos verificar se o projecto poderia promover no aluno, uma comunicação eficaz em LGP e simultaneamente facilitar o processo inicial de aprendizagem da leitura e da Escrita em Português. Os resultados obtidos demonstram um desempenho na compreensão em LGP superior ao seu uso espontâneo, um nível no reconhecimento global de palavras escritas relativamente baixo e um lento desenvolvimento da escrita de palavras.

A estrutura da narrativa na escrita dos alunos surdos

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa para obtenção de grau de mestre em Ciências da Educação - Especialização em Educação Especial

Domínio lexical e compreensão da leitura na criança surda

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa para obtenção de grau de mestre em ciências da educação - especialização em educação especial

Impacto da cogeração na minimização dos custos de energia elétrica

A promoção da cogeração foi um claro sinal de reconhecimento das vantagens deste sistema por parte da União Europeia. Face às preocupações de aprovisionamento energético e escassez de energia primária na Europa, foi promovida a cogeração, mediante a concessão de benefícios a nível do preço de venda da energia elétrica e de vários prémios. Contudo, estes incentivos não deixam de ter um impacto negativo no sistema, se se tiver em linha de conta que estes provocam um aumento do preço da energia elétrica para os clientes finais. Este foi o problema escolhido como objeto de estudo desta dissertação e que veio permitir concluir que, apesar de agora se pagar na fatura mensal (cliente em BTN) um valor adicional em cerca de 1€ devido à existência da cogeração, isto será benéfico futuramente, caso a política do estado Português mantenha estes apoios aos agentes da cogeração. No âmbito do regime remuneratório para a produção em cogeração, foi criada a ferramenta em Excel para simular o comportamento dos sistemas, tendo em conta as necessidades energéticas e muitas outras características. A principal função da ferramenta é a possibilidade de estimar a remuneração de uma unidade de cogeração em função da tecnologia utilizada e para diferentes condições de funcionamento.

Hepatitis B and C in a Brazilian deaf community

ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION:Although deaf people are exposed to hepatitis B and C risk factors, epidemiological studies regarding these diseases in deaf people are lacking.METHODS:After watching an explanatory digital versatile disc (DVD) in Brazilian Sign Language, 88 deaf people were interviewed and tested for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), hepatitis B surface antibody (anti-HBs), hepatitis B core antibody (anti-HBc), and hepatitis C virus antibody (anti-HCV).RESULTS:The prevalence of hepatitis B markers was 8%; they were associated with incarceration and being born outside the State of São Paulo. No cases of hepatitis C were identified.CONCLUSIONS:Participants showed a substantial lack of knowledge regarding viral hepatitis, indicating a need for public policies that consider linguistic and cultural profiles.