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Download full textBonvillian, John D.; And Others – 1993
This study examined young children's hand usage when they produced American Sign Language signs and while they played, in order to determine their hand preference in early signing and to compare their hand use in signing with their hand preference in other, nonlinguistic, motor actions. Subjects were 24 young children (from the age of 12 months or…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Handedness, Manual Communication
DiCarlo, Cynthia F.; Stricklin, Sarintha; Banajee, Meher; Reid, Dennis H. – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 2001
Evaluation of effects of manual signing on toddlers' verbal and nonverbal communicative behaviors in an inclusive preschool found that teacher signing was accompanied by increases in communicative interactions by toddlers with and without disabilities. No reductive effects on communicative verbalizations were observed for either group. (Contains…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Inclusive Schools, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedSwisher, 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
Peer reviewedPoon, 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
