A ministry of (not-so-silly) walks: Investigating classifier handshapes for animate referents in DGS
Open LinguisticsAcross sign languages, classifier predicates depict the movement, location, or manipulation of (in-)animate entities. Each classifier predicate contains a classifier handshape that represents a referent based on one or more of its salient semantic and/or
Lettow Isabeau, Loos Cornelia
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Early exposure to both sign and spoken language for children who are deaf or hard of hearing: Might it help spoken language development? [PDF]
, 2016 The literature on the benefits and deficits of bilingualism is reviewed with an emphasis on sign/spoken bilingualism and on the population of deaf or hard of hearing children.
Farber, Stephanie
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International Journal of Neonatal ScreeningEarly identification of hearing loss through newborn hearing screening followed by an early start of intervention has proven to be effective in promoting speech and language development in children with hearing loss. During the COVID-19 pandemic, newborn
Rosanne B. van der Zee +4 more
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Effects of congenital hearing loss and cochlear implantation on audiovisual speech perception in infants and children [PDF]
, 2010 Purpose: Cochlear implantation has recently become available as an intervention strategy for young children with profound hearing impairment. In fact, infants as young as 6 months are now receiving cochlear implants (CIs), and even younger infants are ...
Bergeson, Tonya R. +2 more
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Prematurity as a factor of damaged child development [PDF]
Современная зарубежная психология, 2015 At present time prematurity is the main reason for disability in children, which can be exemplified by the fact that 2/3 of educatees of children' homes for blind and deaf are preterm children.
Chukhutova G.L.
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Language and culture in the Deaf community: a case study in a South African special school
Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2017 An ethnographic case study on Deaf culture was done at the Thiboloha Special School in a rural area of the Free State province in South Africa. Two Deaf learners and three Deaf teaching assistants participated in this study.
Stander, Marga , Mcilroy, Guy
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Shared Reading Activities: A Recommendation For Deaf Children [PDF]
, 2015 There should be a focus on fun in shared reading activities with preschoolers in order to prepare them for later literacy, particularly those at risk of a poor foundation in a first language (L1), including deaf children (here “deaf” covers hard of ...
Mirus, G., Napoli, Donna Jo
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The Hand of The Silent Worker: Reading an ASL imageword
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2016 The essay argues that the attempt to represent ASL in two dimensions is not a new, postmodern phenomenon, but is instead one that is embedded in deaf history at least as far back as the nineteenth century.
Pamela J. Kincheloe
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Sign of the Times, June 2008 [PDF]
, 2008 Newsletter produced by Deaf Services Commission of ...
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Developing communication skills in deaf primary school pupils: Introducing and evaluating the smiLE approach [PDF]
, 2011 Many profoundly deaf signers have difficulty communicating with hearing people. This article describes a therapy called ‘Strategies and Measurable Interaction in Live English’ (smiLE; Schamroth and Threadgill, 2007a), an approach used to teach deaf ...
Alton, S., Herman, R., Pring, T.
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