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The Use of Sign Language Pronouns by Native-Signing Children with Autism
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Shield, Aaron; Meier, Richard P.; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
We report the first study on pronoun use by an under-studied research population, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exposed to American Sign Language from birth by their deaf parents. Personal pronouns cause difficulties for hearing children with ASD, who sometimes reverse or avoid them. Unlike speech pronouns, sign pronouns are…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Form Classes (Languages), Autism, Use Studies
Non-Verbal IQ Is Correlated with Visual Field Advantages for Short Duration Coherent Motion Detection in Deaf Signers with Varied ASL Exposure and Etiologies of Deafness
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Samar, Vincent J.; Parasnis, Ila – Brain and Cognition, 2007
Studies have reported a right visual field (RVF) advantage for coherent motion detection by deaf and hearing signers but not non-signers. Yet two studies [Bosworth R. G., & Dobkins, K. R. (2002). Visual field asymmetries for motion processing in deaf and hearing signers. "Brain and Cognition," 49, 170-181; Samar, V. J., & Parasnis, I. (2005).…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Intelligence Quotient, Motion
Individual Differences in the Signed Communication of Deaf Children.
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Suty, Karen A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1986
Analysis of spontaneous storytelling samples of deaf 5- to 7-year-olds (N=15), all exposed to manually coded English for some time, differentially showed characteristics more consistent with either English or Sign Language in the language areas of explicit relations, mimed relations, incorporated relations, and English Functors. (CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Children, Deafness, Discourse Analysis