Abstract
This paper intends to deconstruct the long held idea of the visual character of the Deaf. This idea trivializes, in general, the relationships the Deaf establish with the world around them and comes from the perspective of the disability. In the realm of education, this trivialization could lead to the conception that the visual character of the Deaf can and must be pedagogically constructed. The Deaf organize the linguistic and enunciative world in the visual arena and so we can consider that the visual character of the Deaf is not something external, but built in their subjectivity and the way they organize reality. We will show that the relationship of the Deaf with the visual experience takes new meaning when we think that their language runs through the visual channel which entails peculiarities to their linguistic and discourse experience.
Keywords:
sign languages; education; Deaf; visual character