Os serviços de interpretação de língua brasileira de sinais nas universidades e nos institutos federais: a percepção de docentes surdos

Abstract

This paper investigates the reception of Brazilian Sign Language interpreting servi-ces in federal universities and federal institutes by Deaf pro-fessors. For that purpose, we elaborated an online signed questionnaire, based on the Standards of Practice & Ethi-cal Principles presented on the National Standard Guide for Community Interpreting, which is meant to be a guide to community interpreting services in Canada. Therefore, an online signed question-naire containing 27 questions were responded by 45 Deaf professors who work in fede-ral universities and institutes, from 18 different states in Brazil and the Federal District. The results show that, accor-ding to the Deaf professors’ perceptions, the interpreting services in these institutions do not match the quality requirements proposed by the Canadian guide. They also show that there are some cri-tical aspects of these services, such as fidelity and accuracy, impartiality and the quality of voice-interpreting tasks.