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Hernandez, Brianna; Allen, Thomas E.; Morere, Donna A. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2023
Language development is an important facet of early life. Deaf children may have exposure to various languages and communication modalities, including spoken and visual. Previous research has documented the rate of growth of English skills among young deaf children, but no studies have investigated the rate of ASL acquisition. The current paper…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Young Children, Language Acquisition
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Lieberman, Amy M.; Fitch, Allison; Borovsky, Arielle – Developmental Science, 2022
Word learning in young children requires coordinated attention between language input and the referent object. Current accounts of word learning are based on spoken language, where the association between language and objects occurs through simultaneous and multimodal perception. In contrast, deaf children acquiring American Sign Language (ASL)…
Descriptors: Deafness, Cognitive Mapping, Cues, American Sign Language