Discourses of prejudice in the professions: the case of sign languages

摘要: There is no evidence that learning a natural human language cognitively harmful to children. To the contrary, multilingualism has been argued be beneficial all. Nevertheless, many professionals advise parents of deaf children their should not learn sign during early years, despite strong across research disciplines languages are languages. Their recommendations based on combination misperceptions about (1) difficulty language, (2) effects bilingualism, and particularly bimodalism, (3) bona fide status lack written form, (4) acquiring literacy, (5) ability technologies address needs (6) use will have family cohesion. We expose these as in prejudice urge institutions involved educating concerned with healthcare, raising include appropriate information first acquisition importance for further such properly, which means strongly introduction soon hearing loss detected.