Sign language in South Africa: Some research and clinical issues

South African Journal of Communication Disorders

 
 
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Title Sign language in South Africa: Some research and clinical issues
 
Creator Penn, Claire Lewis, Robyn Greenstein, Andrea
 
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Description This article describes the variations of aspects of visual language of the deaf which have been well researched in other countries and which are hypothesized to exist in South Africa. The results of a study conducted on the signing of a group of deaf school children Johannesburg and described. The signs used by these subjects for twelve lexical items differed from the signs said to be representative of the South African deaf community as a whole. Research and clinical implications are presented.
 
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Date 1984-12-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajcd.v31i1.341
 
Source South African Journal of Communication Disorders; Vol 31, No 1 (1984); 6–11 2225-4765 0379-8046
 
Language eng
 
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https://sajcd.org.za/index.php/sajcd/article/view/341/452
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2019 Claire Penn, Robyn Lewis, Andrea Greenstein https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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