SIGN LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGE USE IN SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION

This book has explain language use by a group of Deaf
students, their teachers, their families and their peers in the
School. The book has focused on the use of signing in and
beyond the classroom, examining both the use of the
manual code, Signed Indonesian, SIBI, and the use of the
local sign language, Jambi Sign Language. While the first
part of the book has focused on language use in the
classroom and on the effectiveness of SIBI as a mode of
instruction in the school.
In the linguistics area, there is a need for more
linguistic analysis of the language through the further
collection of ethnographic data on language use. it is also
important to look at the processes of language acquisition
among the Deaf students. Given the vital need for Sign
Language to be used as the language of communication and
instruction in the school, it is important that this linguistic
research is oriented towards the development of the
teaching Sign Language to teachers, administrators and
parents, as well as to the wider community, including the
training of sign language interpreters.