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Day, Pat Spencer – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1986
The study coded the communicative expressions (using manually coded English) of five 3-year-old deaf children while interacting with their mothers. A large proportion of the expressions consisted of social or imperative intentions while a much smaller proportion were used for heuristic or informational purposes. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Expressive Language, Intentional Learning
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Swisher, M. Virginia – American Annals of the Deaf, 1992
The onset and maintenance of visual attention to signing was observed in three profoundly deaf children (ages two and three) while interacting with their hearing mothers about a picture story. All children experienced problems with the need to focus simultaneously on the mother's signs and the picture book. Suggestions for developing visual…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Communication Skills, Deafness, Interaction Process Analysis