title: [The occurrence of communicative acts of preschool Afrikaans-speaking hearing-impaired children ].
abstract: This study researches the occurrence of communicative acts of preschool Afrikaans-speaking hearing-impaired children. The relevance of communication and the incidence of verbal versus non-verbal communication behaviour was also measured. To this end communication samples (30 minutes each) were made of ten three-to-five year old severely hearing-impaired Afrikaans-speaking children in interaction with a familiar adult. The main conclusions of this study were: the subjects as a group are able to express a variety of communication acts appropriately, making use of both verbal and non-verbal behaviour. However, non-verbal behaviour predominates in the communicative behaviour of the group. Some of their verbal utterances are produced without voice.
authors.affiliation: Departement Spraakheelkunde en Oudiologie, Universiteit van Pretoria.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hugo
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Louw
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D003638:Deafness / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D014705:Verbal Behavior
vernacular_title: Die voorkoms van kommunikasiehandelinge by drie- tot vyfjarige Afrikaanssprekende gehoorgestremde kleuters.