Hearing parents with deaf children face difficult decisions about what language (s) to use
with their child. Sign languages such as American Sign Language (ASL) are fully accessible …

In this article, we provide a narrative review of research literature on the development of
pragmatic skills and the social uses of language in children and adolescents, with a focus on …

Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children present several challenges to traditional methods
of language assessment, and yet language assessment for this population is absolutely …

Deaf and hard of hearing children with cochlear implants (CI) often display impaired spoken
language skills. While a large number of studies investigated brain responses to sounds in …

Childhood trauma and adverse childhood experiences have a strong relationship with
health disparities across the lifespan. Despite experiencing approximately doubled rates of …

This Handbook, with 45 chapters written by the world's leading scholars in second language
acquisition (SLA) and language testing, dives into the important interface between SLA and …

The task of transitioning from one interlocutor to another in conversation–taking turns–is a
complex social process, but typically transpires rapidly and without incident in conversations …

Linguistic input has an immediate effect on child language, making it difficult to discern
whatever biases children may bring to language-learning. To discover these biases, we turn …

The evidence base for educational interventions for deaf students has been, and continues
to be, called into question due to a lack of “gold standard” research available to support it …

This chapter discusses important background knowledge and research findings from a
variety of disciplines that inform best practices for supporting optimal mathematical …