I review the literature on reading and deafness, focusing on the role of three broad factors in
acquisition and skilled reading: the method of encoding print; language-specific knowledge …

In Language and Learning in the Digital Age, linguist James Paul Gee and educator
Elisabeth Hayes deal with the forces unleashed by today's digital media, forces that are …

The Fourth Edition of Language and Deafness covers language and literacy development
from preschool through adolescence. Content includes the basics of language development …

Sign languages have two strikingly different kinds of morphological structure: sequential and
simultaneous. The simultaneous morphology of two unrelated sign languages, American …

This is a study of the interaction of phonology with syntax, and, to some extent, with
meaning, in a natural sign language. It adopts the theory of prosodic phonology (Nespor & …

Only a minority of profoundly deaf children read at age-level. We contend this reflects
cognitive and linguistic impediments from lack of exposure to a natural language in early …

Con su pasión y curiosidad habituales, Oliver Sacks se interna en el insondable silencio de
los sordos profundos, de aquellos que han nacido sin uno de los sentidos básicos para el …

This English version of A Language in Space: The Story of Israeli Sign Language, which
received the Bahat Award for most outstanding book for a general audience in its Hebrew …

Verb agreement in sign languages (illustrated here by Israeli Sign Language, ISL) seems to
differ greatly from that of spoken languages, as it seems to be thematically oriented and is …

Expressed by hands and face rather than by voice, and perceived by eye rather than by ear,
signed languages have evolved in a completely different biological medium from spoken …