these demonstrated strong agreement of the instrument, suggesting that the Brazilian version of the "Standardized Nordic Questionnaire" offers substantial reliability.

Abstract. Deaf students have difficulty in reading texts written in languages whose mode is oral-auditory, such as Portuguese. As users of a signed language, it is harder for them to obtain information contained in books, magazines and newspapers. For this purpose, we have built the STAUT-Reader, an electronic reader, designed to help deaf to read texts written in Portuguese. The tool uses a Rule-Based Machine Translation system to produce output texts in a written representation of Libras, the Brazilian Sign Language. To investigate our proposal, we conducted an experiment using a counterbalanced within-subjects design to evaluate the reading performance of deaf readers using our tool. The results showed to be promising, especially for non-oralized deaf.