The Mediator and the Mediation of the Literature for deaf child

Abstract

Discusses the mediation of reading and children's literature as fator as inclusion and accessibility for deaf children. It discusses how mediation can contribute to the enhancement of the autonomy and dignity of deaf children. Highlights the reading mediator's role as facilitator of the relationship between the reader and the text, pointing out that reading is a right for all. It lists the possibilities of children's literature, the discovery of meanings from the look, the perceptions and experiences of the reader. States that mediation with picture books can provide interest and love for books and literature. Through a field study and generative interview of narrative aimed to highlight the mediation through picture books to encourage reading for deaf children, and mention the difficulties that deaf children face in the reading of the universe; identify the activities that promote the reading of ownership by deaf children; list the strategies and mediating skills to provide reading for deaf children and submit the picture books as possibility of mediation for deaf children. It breaks of the beginning that the mediators face difficulties in the deaf children's insert in the universe of the reading and that the image book would be a possibility to overcome them. Stresses that the responsibility of the mediator to encourage the development of deaf children critically conscious and ethics is possible and also necessary. It concludes that mediation with picture books may constitute action to encourage reading for deaf children