A DEAF BODY: OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE IN A BRAZILIAN PERSPECTIVE
<p>Deafness, legal rights, language, teaching and learning are topics strictly related to deaf life and wellbeing.<br />This article aims to discuss the history of deafness and some teaching proposals using Brazil and a<br />Brazilian Institute of Deaf Education in a study case. On that purpose we analyzed didactic and scientific<br />materials and their influence on Brazilian deaf education. Thus, we focused on the deaf speech also<br />approaching pathology and epistemology perspectives present in the narratives of the institute curriculum,<br />questioning these representations. Historical aspects in the educational, pathological and epistemological<br />approaches in Brazil are also reported including different language teaching perspectives including<br />bimodalist, total communication and bilingualism. Our study observed the importance of deaf political<br />movement and their struggle to guarantee the right for a good and long-awaited dreamed bilingual<br />education</p>