Open AccessRELATION OF DEAF PERSONS TOWARDS BILINGUALISM AS COMMUNICATION MODE
Author(s) -
Naim Salkić,
speaking rehabilitation Sarajevo
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
human
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2232-996X
pISSN - 2232-9935
DOI - 10.21554/hrr.021303
Subject(s) - neuroscience of multilingualism , sign language , psychology , sociolinguistics of sign languages , relation (database) , deaf community , linguistics , manual communication , cognition , language interpretation , developmental psychology , computer science , philosophy , database , neuroscience
Bilingualism of a deaf child implies concurrent cognition and usage of sign language, as community language and oral-voice language as language of greater community in which deaf persons live. Today, most authors consider that deaf persons should know both of these languages and that deaf persons need to be educated in both languages, because of their general communication and complete psycho-social development. Through research on sample of 80 deaf examinees, we affirmed the kind of relation that deaf persons have towards bilingualism, bilingual way of education and communication. The research results have shown that bilingualism and bilingual way of education and communication is acceptable to deaf persons and that there is no statistically significant difference between the sub-samples of examinees.