THE SIGN LANGUAGE AS FOCUS OF CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGINARY IN PLAYING OF DEAF CHILDREN

Playing is very important in the childhood, because it is composed by cognition, the affection and the language. The representations of the social roles and playing are tied with the questions of the development and education of the children. Playing takes the accomplishment of the desires that cannot be carried through and satisfies the necessity of interaction with the object and people promoting the development of the children. The objective of this study was to investigate how deaf children, that uses sign language, represent and construct the social roles in the imagining playing. There are some researchers who consider deaf children and their communication through sign language and its social role representation in the imagining playing. They claim that while children play they develop sign language and the global language itself. The sign language is the language of deaf children. This research could establish that deaf children play and use social representations, because a sign language that make possible language acquisition.