Percepção de Professores em relação à escolarização de estudantes surdos ou com deficiência auditiva

This research aims to identify and analyze the teacher´s perception of Early Childhood Education, Elementary School – Initial Years and Special Education, regarding teacher their work with deaf or hearing-impaired students in a city in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Nine teachers working in Special Education, Early Childhood Education and Elementary School - Initial Years participated in the study. The analysis of the data, obtained through interviews, was carried out based on the content analysis technique. The results revealed the need for greater in-depth knowledge about students' hearing loss. In addition, the pedagogical strategies essential for teaching and learning this group have not been fully developed and applied, due to the lack of specific initial and continuing training of teachers aimed at these students, who have different levels of hearing loss and use different communicative modalities.