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Rinaldi, Pasquale; Caselli, Maria Cristina; Lucioli, Tommaso; Lamano, Luca; Volterra, Virginia – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2018
The aim of this study is to analyze Italian Sign Language (LIS) linguistic skills in two groups of deaf signing children at different ages, and to compare their skills with those of a group of deaf signing adults. For this purpose, we developed a new Sentence Reproduction Task (SRT) for Italian Sign Language (LIS-SRT), which we administered to 33…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Children, Adults
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Rinaldi, Pasquale; Caselli, Cristina – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2009
We evaluated language development in deaf Italian preschoolers with hearing parents, taking into account the duration of formal language experience (i.e., the time elapsed since wearing a hearing aid and beginning language education) and different methods of language education. Twenty deaf children were matched with 20 hearing children for age and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Deafness, Assistive Technology, Language Enrichment