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Peer reviewedPadden, Carol; Ramsey, Claire – Topics in Language Disorders, 1998
Reviews claims proposing that knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL) facilitates reading development in deaf children. It offers support for one such claim although it argues that the relationship does not develop naturally but must be cultivated through experiences that serve to direct attention to correspondences between different language…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
