I am working on a piece of writing for the practitioner magazine describing the evidence base for multilingual language acquisition by children with hearing loss. I was lucky enough to be able chat with of the very multilingual Deaf students at RIT today. This is Cristophorus. Cristophorus grew up in Indonesia speaking Indonesian with his family and at school, and also learning English at school. While in Indonesia he learnt American Sign Language from books and tutors and friends, and later learnt Bisindo (Indonesian Sign Language) from other friends. Now a pre-med student at RIT, Cristophorus is a fluent user of spoken English and spoken Indonesian, communicates in American Sign Language and Bisindo, and is currently learning Spanish ... just for fun.
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| Cristophorus and Kate comparing languages |
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