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Dalgleish, Barrie; Mohay, Heather – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Reports on an investigation into the gestural repertoire of a deaf child raised in an oral environment. (AM)
Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness
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Musselman, Carol Reich; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
A longitudinal study of the effect of mothers' communication modes on the language development of children (N=149) with severe or profound hearing loss indicated that children whose mothers used oral communication had higher scores on measures of spoken language, whereas children whose mothers used manual communication had higher scores on…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Deafness, Language Acquisition
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Ertmer, David J.; Strong, Lynette M.; Sadagopan, Neeraja – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2003
This longitudinal case study examined the emergence of oral language skills in a child with deafness whose cochlear implant was activated at 20 months. Normal or above-normal rates of development were observed in decreased production of nonwords, increased receptive vocabulary, type-token ratio, regular use of word combinations, and phrase…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Cochlear Implants, Deafness