Scissors, paste, sign language: Study to show deaf children's enculturation
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 06:40
in Psychology & Sociology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Learning to be a member of a culture is a primary developmental task for all young children. For most, it happens at home. But for deaf children around the world more than 90 percent of them live with hearing parents and siblings their assimilation into deaf culture, the world of sign, and their national culture is likely to begin in early-childhood programs.