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Pontecorvo, Elana; Higgins, Michael; Mora, Joshua; Lieberman, Amy M.; Pyers, Jennie; Caselli, Naomi K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine whether and how learning American Sign Language (ASL) is associated with spoken English skills in a sample of ASL-English bilingual deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children. Method: This cross-sectional study of vocabulary size included 56 DHH children between 8 and 60 months of age who were…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Speech Communication, Language Acquisition, Interference (Language)
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McDermid, Campbell – Sign Language Studies, 2017
A small group of interpreters was interviewed with regard to their view of learning ASL and becoming bicultural. A model of identity was then postulated based on Hegel's dialectic (Wheat 2012) of thesis (presuppositions, stereotypes, or theories about ASL and the Deaf community), antithesis (conflicting experiences), and synthesis (new…
Descriptors: English, Speech Communication, Deafness, American Sign Language