Abstract

ALVES, Elizabete Gonçalves  and  FRASSETTO, Silvana Soriano. Brazilian Sign Language and the development of the deaf people. Aletheia [online]. 2015, n.46, pp. 211-221. ISSN 1413-0394.

The sign language represents a significant role in the life of the deaf person, leading them to, by means of a structured language, to full development. It provides for the deaf children the conditions to the expansion of interpersonal relations, building up the cognitive and affective functioning, thus promoting the constitution of subjectivity. The methodology used in this study was a content analysis of scientific production, available in the Scielo and Lilacs databases with the purpose of verifying the benefits that the acquisition of Sign Language provides in the development of deaf people. In this context this bibliographic research aims to analyze the panorama of Brazilian scientific production, about the importance of the Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS), in face the development of deaf people available in virtual libraries in the period 2000 to 2013.

Keywords : Brazilian Sign Language; Cognition; Development.

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