Practice reading and understanding the performance of deaf students in regular schools

Abstract

Reading is fundamental to the development of students, is through it that takes the approach of classroom content. Therefore, we must teach students to read with competence, so they have a satisfactory academic performance. It appears that schools have not offered to students, and among them, the deaf who use oral language, reading practices significant, thus causing a poor performance and a framework for school failure. Conversely, practices of reading and understanding developed by health professionals in speech therapy centers or clinics, reported by several authors, has helped to minimize the problems that the teaching of reading incipient causes of these students in school life. Given this context, this study aimed to investigate the contribution of the practices of reading and text comprehension developed by healthcare professionals for the performance of deaf students in regular education oralizado inserted. This is a case study, which used as a procedure for data collection, observation in the school in which the student is enrolled deaf, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Practice Hearing, Language and Education (NAIALE), where he participates in services focused on reading and comprehension difficulties. The results showed that the practices of reading and understanding developed in NAIALE contribute to a satisfactory academic performance as meet the specific learning of deaf students who use oral language.