The Interpersonal Relations in Deaf Children and Pupils

Interpersonal relationships occupy a central place in human life. People's willingness to interact is manifested in behavior, communication, social activities. An immanent characteristic of interpersonal relationships is their emotional basis, and the foundation – the primordial need for communication. Hearing children have sufficient capacity to accumulate experience in everyday communication. They form strategies for evaluating communication partners easily and promptly. In contrast, the limitation of social contacts and the specific assimilation of social experience in deaf children and pupils forms a peculiar picture of interpersonal relations, nuanced with a number of features in their construction to which this article is devoted.