Família ouvinte e filho surdo: um levantamento bibliográfico

Abstract

When a child is born it is in the family context that all the firsts references take place. Is where the child will learn and develop his primary social, intellectual and communication skills. Therefore, the family plays a significant social and affective role in this individual's life. The importance of the family for the care and development of a child is unquestionable, as it is in this environment that their first interaction with the world and the education of their social identity begins. A deaf child with hearing parents will be placed in a culture and language that they do not have access to, so the family will have to accept this child and learn about their culture and language so that this individual can develop socially, psychologically and emotionally. The present study aims to identify the researches produced about deaf relatives and sign language, in the portal of CAPES, Scielo and Google Scholar Journals in the last ten years, (2011 - 2021). At the end of the survey, were founded an amount of 21 articles that put in discussion hearing family members with deaf children and sign language. Despite being a low researched topic, studies indicate that early diagnosis with good guidance and professional follow-up with family members it reduces the sense of guilt, thoughts and ignorance about the deaf individual and their culture, being a family network with the necessary guidance and support to respect the language and subjectivity of the deaf individual, improving the affective and family ties that are so important for the full development of the deaf child.