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Lieberman, Amy M.; Hatrak, Marla; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Language Learning and Development, 2014
Joint attention between hearing children and their caregivers is typically achieved when the adult provides spoken, auditory linguistic input that relates to the child's current visual focus of attention. Deaf children interacting through sign language must learn to continually switch visual attention between people and objects in order to achieve…
Descriptors: Deafness, Cues, Sign Language, Infants
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Spencer, Patricia – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2000
This study investigated potential effects of auditory and other communicative experience on development of visual attention in 80 infants (tested at 9, 12, and 18 months), half deaf and half with deaf mothers. Results indicate that early visual attention is associated with and potentially influenced by a complex interaction of maturation,…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Child Development, Deafness, Infants