La comunitat sorda a Catalunya i llengua de signes catalana (LSC)

Frigola, Santiago; Álvarez, Francisco Javier

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/LSC-2018.1.2

La comunitat sorda a Catalunya i llengua de signes catalana (LSC)

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Frigola S, Álvarez FJ. La comunitat sorda a Catalunya i llengua de signes catalana (LSC). Llengua, Societat i Comunicació. 2018;16:6-15. DOI: 10.1344/LSC-2018.1.2

Abstract

The concept of deaf community is associated to sign language, which, in spite of being a natural language for a deaf child, the advances in its study and progressive recognition and legalisation in various countries, continues to be relatively unknown and misunderstood in wide layers of society. As a consequence, the education and normal development of a deaf child become very affected by the clinical approach to deafness and the objective of integrating it in society with oral education, without guaranteed accomplishment, more than in a number of cases, undetermined in the absence of official statistics. Catalunya has not been an exception and in this article we speak about the educational process and the associative movement as is the amalgam that has joined, since now, Catalan sign language with the deaf community.