Abstract
The educational inclusion of deaf students has often been debated, especially for bilingual and bicultural condition of the students, which requires differentiated teaching practices that depart from Brazilian Sign Language. The aim of the study was to understand what the school professionals say about the role of language. The participants were the director, the educational supervisor, the coordinator of languages and codes, the human coordinator, the exact sciences coordinator, Portuguese teacher as a second language, the resource room teacher and Libras interpreter. Fieldwork was conducted at a high school in the public system, in the Federal District in Brazil, through semi-structured interviews. Analyzes surmised to an axis related to the centrality (or not) Libras to the bicultural development of the deaf. Survey participants formulated critical exposure of schooling processes of the deaf and the Sign Language.
Keywords:
Educational inclusion; brazilian sign language; special education