Abstract
Current trends in assessing Czech Deaf children's abilities focus on the degree of their hearing impairment rather than on uncovering their communication competencies. Their skills in the pragmatic and social-cognitive domains are under-researched.
This study is the first step towards designing a sound measure to detect their existing skills in these areas. Our overall intention is to find a relationship between their social-cognitive understanding and the mode of their preferred choice of communication (i.e., the usage of Czech Sign Language versus spoken Czech).