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Koester, Lynne Sanford – American Annals of the Deaf, 1992
This paper presents examples of nonconscious or intuitive parental behaviors in parent-infant dyads in which the parent or child is deaf, discusses these behaviors in terms of the ways they help infants adapt to the postnatal environment and transition from preverbal to verbal development, and examines difficulties in parent-infant interactions.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Child Rearing, Communication Skills
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Robinshaw, Ellen M.; Evans, Roy – Early Child Development and Care, 1995
Explores the effect of variations in caregiver sensitivity on the timing of their severely and profoundly deaf infants' acquisition of communication skills. Found that caregivers of deaf infants showed considerable variation in comparison to the caregivers of normally hearing infants. Contextual factors of a dynamic nature operate with varying…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Behavior Patterns, Caregiver Role, Childhood Needs