As interações comunicativas entre familiares ouvintes e sujeitos surdos: possibilidades de ressignificações

The communicative interactions between hearing family members and deaf subjects is an incipient and challenging theme. The family is the first and closest social group with which the subject nurtures your relations, which affect directly in their global development. This research, rooted in Vygotski's historic-cultural approach, aimed at analyzing aspects of a reflective process along with hearing family of deaf subjects about their communicative interactions in the domestic environment. The participants were six families,constituted by hearing people and a deaf member, who was enrolled in a public school Bilingual Inclusive Education. The methodology consisted of three stages: 1. Analyzing the communicative interactions in their family routines; 2. Performing a reflexive process, with the family members about the results obtained in stage 1; 3. Repeating stage 1 seeking to identify contributions from stage 2 for the communicative interactions.The stages were video-recorded and guided by the “Scale of Oral Language Assessment in Family Context (EVALOF)” instrument, adapted for this research. Comparing communicative characteristics in steps 1 and 3, there was an improvement in the performance of several items of the scale for all families. Step 2 provided, from listening to family members, the resignifying of their relationship with the deaf member and LIBRAS (Brazilian Sign Language). Bilingual Education institutions for deaf can and should promote actions like this, since school and family are co-responsible for constitution of the deaf as bilingual subjects.