Bull. Nara Univ. Educ., Vol. 61, No. 1 (Cult. & Soc.), 2012 Possibilities and Challenges of the Practice with Japanese Sign Language (JSL) for Communication Aids in Japanese Early Childhood Deaf Education Yoshiko URIU (Department of Early Childhood Education, Nara University of Education) (Received May 7, 2012) Abstract The practice of bilingual deaf education in Northern Europe and America has pushed the introduction of Japanese Sign Language (JSL) for communication aids into Japanese public deaf schools since the 1990s. This study examined this new trend and discussed the possibility of the combined method of JSL and oral Japanese for young deaf children to promote their meta-linguistic abilities and to provide them clues to written Japanese language. Key Words : young children with hearing disorder, deaf education, sign language, case relation
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