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How multilingual is scholarly communication? Mapping the global distribution of languages in publications and citations

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Language is a major source of systemic inequities in science, particularly among scholars whose first language is not English. Studies have examined scientists' linguistic practices in specific contexts; few, however, have provided a global analysis of multilingualism in science. Using two major bibliometric databases (OpenAlex and Dimensions),
Carolina Pradier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

'Children are just lingual': The development of phonology in British Sign Language (BSL) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper explores three universal tendencies in spoken language acquisition: consonant and vowel harmony, cluster reduction and systemic simplification, using a corpus of 1018 signs from a single child exposed to British Sign Language from birth. Child
Morgan, G.
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Should All Deaf Children Learn Sign Language?

open access: yesPediatrics, 2015
Every year, 10 000 infants are born in the United States with sensorineural deafness. Deaf children of hearing (and nonsigning) parents are unique among all children in the world in that they cannot easily or naturally learn the language that their ...
D. Napoli   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Examination of Racial Bias in Scoring the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) Module 3: An Item Response Theory Analysis

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the rising prevalence of autism among racial minority children in the United States, but persistent service use disparities, this study examines potential bias in specific items from the autism diagnostic observation schedule (ADOS), a highly regarded autism evaluation.
Yuen Yvonne Yu   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multimedia clip type: Quality of perception impact on users with and without hearing loss [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This paper investigates how variance in multimedia video clip type affects quality of perception (QoP) for users ith and without hearing loss. QoP encompasses not only a user's satisfaction with the quality of a multimedia presentation (subjective), but ...
Ghinea, G, Gulliver, SR
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Measurement Invariance of the PROMIS Family Relationships Scale Among Autistic and General Population Adolescents

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social relationships are a key component of quality of life, a high‐priority outcome for autistic people, and family relationships are critical in adolescence. The PROMIS Family Relationships scale has been well validated for use with the general population, but psychometric validation in the autistic population is lacking.
Rachel M. Benecke   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sense of Community: The Irish Deaf Community

open access: yesTeanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2021
There is a strong perception among members of the Irish deaf community that the community is in gradual decline, with dwindling traditional bases for producing Irish Sign Language (ISL) users.
John Bosco Conama
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Bodies in Dependence: A Foucauldian Genealogy of the Americans with Disabilities Acts

open access: yesDisability Studies Quarterly, 2019
The Americans with Disabilities Acts (ADA) of 1990 and 2008 are laws imagined as enacting two goals: enhancing civil rights and reducing sociopolitical discrimination for Americans with disabilities; however, findings from this study strongly contrast ...
Michael E. Skyer
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Negotiation of Deaf Culture: Alternative Realities in the Classroom

open access: yes, 2014
In a increasingly globalized world, family members of deaf individuals increasingly are faced with a dilemma between identification with Deaf culture or pursuing biomedical intervention in order help deaf children hear sounds artificially. The importance
Hoffman, Drew A.
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Sign of the Times, February 2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Newsletter produced by Deaf Services Commission of ...

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