Factor Analysis of Deaf Persons Communication Systems

Naim Salkic, Emira Svraka, Meliha Povlakic Hadziefendic

Deaf persons, in relation to their psychophysical abilities and their mindset, uses a non-verbal communication system spontaneously in which they are trained through their education, verbal communication system in which they are systematically educated through the process of education and re/habilitation, and a bilingual system of communication that implies simultaneous use of both verbal and non-verbal communication system. The aim of the study was to determine the latent space between the communication systems of the deaf and to define the factors indicating preference for the particular communication system. By the method of the main components, using the slanting latent solution (Ortoblique rotation), we evaluated the latent structure of sample patterns according to preference of certain forms of communication systems and PB criteria extracted five factors that define the latent space of preferred communication systems „Factor preferring nonverbal communication system“, „Factor of bilingvistic orientation as preferred communication system“, „Factor of segregation approach as approach to communication“, „Bilingual communication factor“, and „Factor of positive relations to all modes of communication“.