Sign Language Users’ Education and Employment Levels: Keeping Pace with Changes in the General Australian Population?
This article draws on data from the 2006 Australian census to explore the education and employment outcomes of sign languages users living in Victoria, Australia, and to compare them with outcomes reported in the general population. Census data have the advantage of sampling the entire population on...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 401 - 414 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Summer2011
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