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Is Vision Necessary for the Timely Acquisition of Language-Specific Patterns in Co-Speech Gesture and Their Lack in Silent Gesture?
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Seyda Özçaliskan; Ché Lucero; Susan Goldin-Meadow – Developmental Science, 2024
Blind adults display language-specificity in their packaging and ordering of events in speech. These differences affect the representation of events in "co-speech gesture"--gesturing with speech--but not in "silent gesture"--gesturing without speech. Here we examine when in development blind children begin to show adult-like…
Descriptors: Blindness, Vision, Nonverbal Communication, Children
Functional Linguistic Strategies of Blind Children.
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McGinnis, Amy R. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1981
The results suggested that although blind children are generally competent in language, they utilize a number of linguistic strategies that differentiate them from sighted language users. (Author)
Descriptors: Blindness, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Linguistics
Early Language Development in Blind and Severely Visually Impaired Children. Interim Report on Pilot Study.
Moore, Vanessa; McConachie, Helen – 1990
This study investigated variables that might be associated with outcome differences in language development of 10 children (ages 10-20 months) with blindness or severe visual impairments, attending a developmental vision clinic in southern England. Subjects' early patterns of expressive language development were examined and related to observed…
Descriptors: Blindness, Child Language, Comprehension, Expressive Language
Early Words of Blind Children.
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Bigelow, Ann – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Examination of the first 50 words of three blind children revealed that the early vocabulary paralleled that of seeing children in terms of age and speed of acquisition. Differences between the two groups were related to factors which were highly influenced by experience (including visual experience). (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Blindness, Child Language, Classification, Comparative Analysis