The Role of Communication in Building Social Relations with Deaf Persons

The communication isolation to which deaf people are exposed ofteninfluences the building of social relations and determines their social position.The paper presents research on the position of deaf people caused bycommunication and social factors. The sample consisted of deaf (n=127) andhearing (n=99) respondents. In the evaluation of the results was useddescriptive and factor analysis. The research isolated communicationdiscriminatory factors and factors of discrimination in the evaluation of socialfunctions, based on which it can be concluded that communication plays a keyrole in building social relations of deaf people, but also that their position isconditioned stereotypical and discriminatory attitudes of the hearingenvironment