Pedagogical Architecture -- Internet Artifacts for Bilingualism of the Deaf (Sign Language/Portuguese)

Deaf children born to non-Deaf parents have little to no exposure to Sign Language acquisition. Sign Language, the natural language of the Deaf, is a complete linguistic system, different from the oral language, and it is necessary for intellectual development. There is a lack of educational tools for/in Sign Language and few researches to inform designers on how to build computational tools to provide the Deaf children and their parents with Literacy: the effective appropriation of knowledge, via bilingualism. Such goal can be achieved by the use of Sign Language as the first language for the Deaf and as a second language for the parents, and by the use of the written modality of the oral language for the Deaf. This paper presents a pedagogical architecture and a computational process that allows for scientific-based design of Artifacts. A case study is presented to discuss the development of a prototype.