CLINICAL PRAGMATICS: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN DEAF CHILDREN ON MULTIMODALITY

Abstract

This research aims to explain language acquisition deaf children on multimodality. Deaf children cannot learn language or acquire language skills or speak in a normal way. It is possible to acquire the first language of a deaf child with total communication. Total communication is the most effective communication system because other than using a form of communication orally, reading, writing, reading utterances, also equipped with a form of sign. Signs are like natural language for deaf, although the form is different in some areas, there is an Indonesian sign system which is standardized. Acquiring the language of deaf children is understanding speech through reading media speech. Reading utterances is an element or basis of the inner language system. The inner deaf child consists of words as appearing in motion and style as a substitute for the sounds of the language in the form of vowels, consonants, and intonations in children hearing. This research was conducted using a qualitative-descriptive type with a case study approach. The data of this research are expressions of language acquisition of children with hearing impairments in understanding multimodality in English and corpus linguistics. The location of this research was carried out in Bandung, elementary students at SLB C Sukapura.