In recent years, normed signed language assessments have become a useful tool for
researchers, practitioners, and advocates. Nevertheless, there are limitations in their …

There has been a scarcity of studies exploring the influence of students' American Sign
Language (ASL) proficiency on their academic achievement in ASL/English bilingual …

ASL-LEX is a publicly available, large-scale lexical database for American Sign Language
(ASL). We report on the expanded database (ASL-LEX 2.0) that contains 2,723 ASL signs …

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine whether and how learning American Sign
Language (ASL) is associated with spoken English skills in a sample of ASL–English …

Failing to acquire language in early childhood because of language deprivation is a rare
and exceptional event, except in one population. Deaf children who grow up without access …

The matter of raising and educating deaf children has been caught up in percepts of
development that are persistently inaccurate and at odds with scientific research. These …

The current study contributes empirical data to our understanding of how knowledge of
American Sign Language (ASL) syntax aids reading print English for deaf children who are …

For many years, researchers have sought to understand the reading development of deaf
and hard of hearing (DHH) students. Guided by prior research on DHH and hearing …

Signing systems that attempted to represent spoken language via manual signs–some
invented, and some borrowed from natural sign languages–have historically been used in …

This article builds on Carol Padden and Tom Humphries' assertion that culturally identified
deaf people inhabit a different center of knowledge than the non-deaf. Over generations of …