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Oscar L. Ocuto – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
Engaged communication between mother and a child in their early developmental stages is one of the predictors of children's development of higher-order thinking skills. For deaf children, this engaged communication between mother and child hinges on the home language environment (HLE) being fully accessible to the child. This research uses…
Descriptors: Deafness, Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship, Sign Language
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Laura Kanto; Minna Laakso; Kerttu Huttunen – Journal of Child Language, 2024
Pointing plays a significant role in communication and language development. However, in spoken languages pointing has been viewed as a non-verbal gesture, whereas in sign languages, pointing is regarded to represent a linguistic unit of language. This study compared the use of pointing between seven bilingual hearing children of deaf parents…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Interaction
Rosalind Herman Gelbart, Editor; Charlotte Enns, Editor – Oxford University Press, 2025
"Communication Interventions with Deaf People" concerns the application of spoken, signed, and written language interventions with deaf and hard of hearing children, young people, and adults. Exploring the work that speech and language therapists, pathologists, deaf language specialists, and other professionals carry out with deaf…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hard of Hearing, Interpersonal Communication, Language Usage
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Phiri, Malonje – Deafness & Education International, 2021
Deaf education faces many challenges in Malawi, making it more difficult to offer quality education to deaf children. Since the 1990s, Malawi has shifted from a special education system to an inclusive education system. The major emphasis has been on enabling deaf children to learn alongside other children in inclusive mainstream classrooms.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Students with Disabilities, Children, Elementary School Students
Dostal, Hannah M.; Wolbers, Kimberly A.; Kilpatrick, Jennifer Reneé – Grantee Submission, 2019
Interactive Writing (IW) is a powerful support for language and literacy development; however, its emphasis on using oral language to construct written language can present challenges for deaf/Deaf and hard of hearing (d/Dhh) students due to their unique and diverse language experiences. Teachers (n = 14) using Strategic and Interactive Writing…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Writing Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Deafness
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Choo, Dawn; Dettman, Shani J. – Deafness & Education International, 2016
During the pre- and post-implant habilitation process, mothers of children using cochlear implants may be coached by clinicians to use appropriate communicative strategies during play according to the family's choice of communication approach. The present study compared observations made by experienced and inexperienced individuals in the analysis…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Video Technology, Observation
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Villas Boas, Denise Cintra; Ferreira, Léslie Piccolotto; de Moura, Maria Cecília; Maia, Shirley Rodrigues; Amaral, Isabel – American Annals of the Deaf, 2016
Children with deafblindness need support to be able to understand the world and to have access to information. The authors analyzed a dyad consisting of a child with congenital deafblindness and a specialized teacher. The study included participant observations and audiovisual recordings. It was found that the child showed attention to the teacher…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, Children, Deaf Blind
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Cramér-Wolrath, Emelie – Deafness and Education International, 2013
Most deaf children are born to hearing families. During the last twenty years deaf children, in increasing numbers and at an early age, receive a cochlear implant, a highly technological hearing device. The aim of this qualitative, longitudinal, single-case study was to explore and describe critical changes in naturalistic, video-observed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Deafness, Assistive Technology
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Morgan, Gary; Barrett-Jones, Sarah; Stoneham, Helen – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
A total of 1,018 signs in one deaf child's naturalistic interaction with her deaf mother, between the ages of 19 and 24 months were analyzed. This study summarizes regular modification processes in the phonology of the child sign's handshape, location, movement, and prosody. First, changes to signs were explained by the notion of phonological…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Young Children, Phonology, Sign Language