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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

Preisler, Gunilla Michaela; Ahlstrom, Margareta – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1997
Describes patterns of interaction between hard of hearing and deaf children as well as hard of hearing children. Shows that an easily used sign language code enabled the children to take part in dialogs and had positive consequences for their play as well as their social and emotional development. (DSK)
Descriptors: Child Development, Deafness, Emotional Development, Foreign Countries

Poon, Brenda T. – CAEDHH Journal/La Revue ACESM, 1997
This review of research on language development of hearing children of deaf parents identified three areas of focus: (1) oral language development; (2) sign language development; and (3) mode of communication--oral and/or manual. Areas of future study are suggested. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Development, Deafness, Expressive Language