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Direct linkLauren 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
Jenny L. Singleton; Kristin Walker; Richard P. Meier; Aaron Shield – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
Research on the acquisition of American Sign Language (ASL) by deaf autistic children has documented similarities to the linguistic profile of hearing children on the autism spectrum and has identified sign-specific phenomena that could serve as clinical markers of autism in the deaf population. However, the acquisition of a signed language by…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Case Studies, Deafness, Native Language
