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Denmark, Tanya; Atkinson, Joanna; Campbell, Ruth; Swettenham, John – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
This study examined facial expressions produced during a British Sign Language (BSL) narrative task (Herman et al., International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 49(3):343-353, 2014) by typically developing deaf children and deaf children with autism spectrum disorder. The children produced BSL versions of a video story in which…
Descriptors: Deafness, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Sign Language
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Waldron, Manjula B. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
A quantitative model of speech development is proposed based on observations of normal hearing and congenitally deaf children. Nonlinear controls used during the development of suprasegmental and segmental aspects of speech are identified. Linguistic components of speech are ignored. The importance of the associative cortex in speech-motor control…
Descriptors: Child Development, Deafness, Manual Communication, Mathematical Models
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White, Leslie; And Others – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1992
A four-week training program for hearing mothers of two deaf children (age five) utilized instructional videotapes using spoken and signed (Pidgin Signed English) simulated natural conversations to improve their sign communication skills. The mothers increased their use of signs by 55 percent and 44 percent, respectively, as a result of the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Distance Education, Educational Media