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Lauren Berger; Jennie Pyers; Amy Lieberman; Naomi Caselli – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
Most deaf children have hearing parents who do not know a sign language at birth and are at risk of limited language input during early childhood. Studying these children as they learn a sign language has revealed that timing of first-language exposure critically shapes language outcomes. But the input deaf children receive in their first language…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, Native Language, Language Acquisition
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Orit Fuks – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
This longitudinal multiple-case study research focused on the scaffolding strategies that two Israeli deaf mothers use to boost their young hearing children's engagement in reading interactions. Despite being significant to language learning, few studies have examined the dialogic reading practices of deaf-signing mothers. The study shows that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Sign Language, Total Communication
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Donna A. Morere; Thomas E. Allen – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2025
Deaf children of hearing parents (DOH) are at risk for early language delays (ELD) due to environmental and etiological factors, compounding the previously reported higher incidence of ELD in deaf children of deaf parents (DOD) compared to the general population. Archival data from the online database of the Visual Communication and Sign Language…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, Parents with Disabilities, Students with Disabilities