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Applied Sciences, 2022 Background: Few studies report prevalence rates of hearing loss in newborns for nationwide populations. The Dutch well-baby newborn hearing screening covers almost all eligible children and has high participation rates for follow-up screening rounds and ...
Rosanne B. van der Zee +3 more
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Lexical organization in deaf children who use British Sign Language: Evidence from a semantic fluency task [PDF]
, 2013 We adapted the semantic fluency task into British Sign Language (BSL). In Study 1, we present data from twenty-two deaf signers aged four to fifteen. We show that the same ‘cognitive signatures’ that characterize this task in spoken languages are also ...
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Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2020 No studies have included the experiences and needs of informal caregivers who are deaf, use American Sign Language (ASL), and care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias (ADRD).
Donalda Ammons EdD +2 more
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Auditory closure with visual cues: Relationship with working memory and semantic memory [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2021 The role of working memory (WM) and long-term lexical-semantic memory (LTM) in the perception of interrupted speech with and without visual cues, was studied in 29 native English speakers. Perceptual stimuli were periodically interrupted sentences filled
Naveen K. Nagaraj +3 more
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Deaf and hearing children's picture naming Impact of age of acquisition and language modality on representational gesture [PDF]
, 2017 Stefanini, Bello, Caselli, Iverson, & Volterra (2009) reported that Italian 24-36 month old children use a high proportion of representational gestures to accompany their spoken responses when labelling pictures.
England, R. +5 more
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Frontiers in Education, 2022 The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to determine the differences in narrative macrostructure abilities of children in different age groups using a progress monitoring tool based in discourse theory.
Megan Israelsen-Augenstein +4 more
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Discourses Of Prejudice In The professions: The Case Of Sign Languages [PDF]
, 2017 There is no evidence that learning a natural human language is cognitively harmful to children. To the contrary, multilingualism has been argued to be beneficial to all.
Humphries, T. +6 more
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Review of the book Deaf around the World: The impact of language / ed. by Mathur & Napoli [PDF]
, 2012 (first paragraph) Since its advent half a century ago, the field of sign language linguistics has had close ties to education and the empowerment of deaf communities, a union that is fittingly celebrated by Deaf around the world: The impact of language ...
de Vos, Connie, Palfreyman, Nick
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Seeing the Deaf in "Deafness" [PDF]
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2008 This article draws on some of the existing literature on the politics of identity and representation as related to minority group formation. It applies this to constructions of Deaf2 identity from a cultural and linguistic perspective and contrasts this with dominant constructions of Deaf people as disabled. It highlights a number of ways in which Deaf
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Ear & Hearing, 2000 The last decade has led to the identification of several mitochondrial DNA mutations associated with hearing loss. Since the only known function of the human mitochondrial chromosome is to participate in the production of chemical energy through oxidative phosphorylation, it was not unexpected that mitochondrial mutations interfering with energy ...
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