Abstract
A great deal of deaf people can communicate through natural sign languages - in Brazil, Libras (Língua Brasileira de Sinais). Some of those, also write in Portuguese, situation described as "bimodal bilingualism" (Lillo-Martin, Quadros, & Pichler, 2016), that is, written Portuguese is seen as a second language. There are many works on deaf bilingualism in Brazil (e.g. Brochado, 2003; Cava…