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Sign language in South Africa: Some research and clinical issues

Claire Penn, Robyn Lewis, Andrea Greenstein
South African Journal of Communication Disorders | Vol 31, No 1 | a341 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajcd.v31i1.341 | © 2019 Claire Penn, Robyn Lewis, Andrea Greenstein | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 10 November 2016 | Published: 31 December 1984

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Claire Penn, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Robyn Lewis, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Andrea Greenstein, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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Abstract

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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