LIVROS IMAGEM SINALIZADOS PARA ALFABETIZAÇÃO EM LÍNGUA DE SINAIS
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Língua de sinais, Livro imagem, Alfabetização, LeituraAbstract
Hearing children have long benefited from engaging with literacy materials, although this is not the case for deaf children and signed languages. Sign language literacy is still in its infancy, even in those countries who have an official sign language curriculum. In addition, sign language literacy materials are scarce. With the aim to fill this gap, the Libras em primeiro project,(2022 - 2024), funded by FAPERGS (in Portuguese, A Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul), in the postgraduate program Programa de pós-graduação em Letras, University of Santa Cruz do Sul, RSBrasil, has developed hybrid signed language learning material for deaf children in the kindergarten and the first grade of elementary education. In particular, the material is a series of signed picturebooks, which integrates visual-graphics and videos to support deaf children’s early sign language literacy and teacher’s practice. The paper describes the theoretical foundations of this development mainly on the basis of the Reading Systems Framework and its connections to the cognitive mechanisms of sign language processing and recognition.
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