Development of social cognition in the Czech Sign Language users

Abstract

The authors present Their plans to test the development of social cognition of the Czech Deaf children. They mainly describe the process of an adaptation of a set of tasks for testing theory-of-mind competencies, Theory of Mind Task Battery, for the use with the population of Czech Deaf children-both users of Czech Sign Language as well as those using spoken Czech.

Keywords

• Deaf
• social cognition
• theory of mind
• battery of tasks
• Czech Sign Language user
• Spoken Czech Language user