Contribution to Special Education: Cuban sign language and its teaching in deaf schoolchildren

Abstract

Cuban Sign Language is the first language of deaf people, so the teaching-learning process must prioritize its development, since it constitutes a symbol of cultural identity for the Cuban deaf community, the domain of Sign Language, favors the development of receptive and memory capacity, as well as social integration. The article focuses its attention on the proposal of a manual for the treatment of signs verb in fourth grade deaf schoolchildren based on pedagogical principles and with the corresponding signs officially approved by the commission of the national Cuban Sign Language research group, it can be used by the teacher in the Sign Language and Spanish Language class as support material, its effectiveness is demonstrated when applied in practice at the Fructuoso Rodríguez Pérez special school in the city of Santa Clara by carrying out a pedagogical pre-experiment.