Motivações e expectativas familiares: um estudo de caso sobre o implante coclear

Abstract

Each family has an expectation when your child is born. Hearing parents struggling to find that her son is deaf, these difficulties occur, often due to lack of knowledge about deaf people, some even have contacts, meet people who are deaf, but when it comes time for the child, many do not accept such condition. The reaction varies from parent to parent, and even between father and mother. Even before acquiring oral language to a child already communicate in a non-verbal body movements, gestures, looks, crying. Thus, upon learning of this situation, when parents realize that their son (daughter) is deaf, seek resources so that it can acquire the speech, hoping that, for example, may create opportunities to deaf children, a better form of communication . Parents turn to cochlear implants because this is a feature that may make it possible to talk about deafness, bilateral sensorineural profound. This article aims to know what the reaction of parents to detect deafness in his son, characterizing the social and educational concepts constructed by parents on deafness and the reasons that lead the family to opt for a cochlear implant and expectations that arise at this attitude.