deaf language development: largest study in the world (8, 000 deaf students from K to College 20 hr/student) reveals: development is greater in special schools than it in in mainscreaming schools

Thu Oct 8 15:28:53 UTC 2009

Dear Ernandes,
Here at the University of Sao Paulo we have conducted the largest study
(about deaf language development) in the world. My research associate
fellows, doctoral students and I have examined 8,000 Brazilian deaf students
from Kindergarten to College from 15 Brazilian states in all geographic
regions of the country. Each child was evaluated during 20 hr in a number
os skills such as :
alphabetic reading competence (perilexical word decoding via
grapheme-phoneme-chereme strategy and orthographic word recognition via
lexical strategy)
lipreading or orofacial reading competence (understanding spoken word
utterances)
Portuguese receptive vocabulary via orofacial reading (visemic vocabulary)
text comprehension (syntactic processing and semantic extraction from
written texts, analysis of error type incidence in ters of cheremic
paralexias, semantic paralexias, ortographic paralexias)
expressive written vocabulary (naming pictures and signs via matching to
sample)
alphabetical spelling competence (degree of correction of spelling, and
analysis of error type incidence in ters of cheremic paragraphias, semantic
paragraphias, ortographic paragraphias)
receptive Libras vocabulary (understanding sign utterances).
Multiple regression analyses, cariant analyses followed by contrast analyses
and pairwise tests revealed that deaf children language development is
greater in especial schools that teach in sign language than it is in
regular schools under mainstreaming. My research has impacted on the
Ministry of Education, which has created recently the double register, in
which each and every deaf child is enrolled in two schools, one especial and
the other regular. However, there's much to improve because especial schools
that teach in Libras are so rare! That is why we are engaged in a movement
to increase the number of those schools throughout Brazil. In the future,
there is no doubt SW will be part of our intense educational efforts. I am
glad you will join us in this movement. In Manaus Professor Nidia Sa is one
of our dearest associates (she is our research associate fellow in Manaus,
and has evaluated deaf childrem from Amazon and several Northeast states).
Perhaps you may want to join efforts with her. I am forwarding this message
to her. Her e-mail is:
"Nídia Regina Limeira de Sá" <nidia-regina at hotmail.com>, "Nídia Sá" <
pranidia at gmail.com>,
Best regards,
Fernando Capovilla, IP-USP

Fernando Capovilla, PhD, Livre Docente
Professor, Instituto de Psicologia, USP
Av. Prof. Melo de Morais 1721
São Paulo, SP, 05508-900
fcapovilla at gmail.com

2009/10/8 Ernandes Lourenço (GCR) <ernandesbarroso at correios.com.br>

>   Manaus/AM/Brazil, October 8th 2009.
>
>
>
> Dear Valerie and Fernando,
>
>
>
>             I am a hearing Postman in Brazilian Post and Telegraph Company
> since 1991 and I am very interested in deaf people in my city, Manaus, in
> the state of Amazon. I am very sad to see the unrespectful way that deaf
> people have been treated in Manaus schools, mainly in the public ones. For
> example, deaf children are included in hearing students classroms with an
> interpreter that make the deaf ones enjoy just partially what is explaned. I
> am really sorry about that. For this reason I think we will have to wait  a
> little more time to create a Singwriting culture here in Amazon. However, as
> I do not intend to wait too much time to watch that occurs, I and my two
> sons, Ernan (12 years old) and Lucas (9 years old) are doing a LIBRAS course
> in a Deaf Association, named *ASMAN* (*Associação* *de* *Surdos* *de* *
> Manaus* or “Manaus Deaf Association”). Unfortnately, that association does
> not have much financial support from Amazon authorities. I would rather
> prefer to do something about it in advance. So, how could you help me to do
> something really practical to learn and multiplicate SW to deaf here, as we
> do not have any schools that teach SW in our region? Since now, I am very
> gratful for your precious help.
>
>
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ernandes Barroso Lourenço
>
> Postman and Management Performance Supervisor
>
> Brazilian Post and Telegraph Company/GEREC/DR/AM
>
> ernandesbarroso at correios.com.br
>
> 55 92 3621 8422 (work)  -  55 92 9221 8825 (personal mobile)
>

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