Accessible University: the Deaf Students of Secondary Education Have the Floor

This way of organizing the education, added to the lack of recognizing of deaf students as a minority group collaborates to maintaining them away from the university. This text depicts the access expectations of deaf students to the Higher Education.

Participants of this study are seven deaf students enrolled in the High School, at a state public school located on a town of the west of São Paulo State, who use the Brazilian Signal Language (Libras). Data were collected through individual interviews made in Libras, which were filmed for a further transcription into Portuguese language. Gathered material allowed to identify facilitators and obstacles recognized by those students to accessing the higher education.