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deafness as well as the various difficulties of the pupils involved eventually
constituted a very heterogeneous and mixed group. In some activities, we divided
them into two groups with the intention of making a careful observation and
rethinking the attitudes. The pupils involved in the project were nine children
ranging from 9 to 12 years old. All these pupils were deaf in elementary school
and in regular school.
22.3.3 Activities
22.3.3.1 Building the City
The first practice with the pupils sought, from the appreciation of the visual field
and the Brazilian sign language, awakening the pupils to the impacts of Brazilian
urbanization and environmental problems resulting from this process. Starting with
the practice of assembling a jigsaw puzzle containing a drawing of a modern city
(Fig. 22.1 ), we tried to stimulate the visual discrimination, analysis, synthesis, and
visual-motor coordination (Albres 2010 ). The puzzle was designed using cardboard
paper, the drawing of a city, and impermeable adhesive paper to make it more
resistant. If we had had more time, it would have also been possible that each pupil
Fig. 22.1 Pupil building the city
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