The quality of sign language interpreting (SLI) is a gripping construct among practitioners, educators and researchers, calling for reliable and valid assessment. There has been a diverse array of methods in the extant literature to measure SLI quality, ranging from traditional error analysis to recent rubric scoring. In this study, we want to…

Effective literacy education in deaf students calls for psycholinguistic research revealing the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying their written language processing. When learning a written language, deaf students are often instructed to sign out printed text. The present fMRI study was intended to reveal the neural substrates associated…

Traces the development of name signs, developed within the first month of arrival for each of 21 new resident pupils at a Chinese school for the deaf, identifies initiators of signs, discusses the nature of the name signs, and analyzes their linguistic structure. (Author/CB)