Acquisition of sign languages

D Lillo-Martin, J Henner - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Natural sign languages of deaf communities are acquired on the same time scale as that of
spoken languages if children have access to fluent signers providing input from birth. Infants …

Learning a sign language does not hinder acquisition of a spoken language

E Pontecorvo, M Higgins, J Mora, AM Lieberman… - Journal of Speech …, 2023 - ASHA
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 …

Family ASL: An early start to equitable education for deaf children

DC Lillo-Martin, E Gale… - Topics in Early …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children experience systematic barriers to equitable
education due to intentional or unintentional ableist views that can lead to a general lack of …

Morphological awareness and DHH students' reading-related abilities: A meta-analysis of correlations

D Zhang, S Ke, H Anglin-Jaffe… - Journal of Deaf Studies …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This article presents the first meta-analysis on correlations of morphological awareness (MA)
with reading-related abilities in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students (k= 14, N= 556) …

Inclusive Deaf Education Enabled by Artificial Intelligence: The Path to a Solution

A Coy, PS Mohammed, P Skerrit - International Journal of Artificial …, 2024 - Springer
Deaf learners in the Global South struggle to access equitable education, in particular, there
are few instances where they can be facilitated in inclusive classrooms. The challenges …

Exposure to sign language prior and after cochlear implantation increases language and cognitive skills in deaf children

A Delcenserie, F Genesee… - Developmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recent evidence suggests that deaf children with CIs exposed to nonnative sign language
from hearing parents can attain age‐appropriate vocabularies in both sign and spoken …

Deaf and Hearing American Sign Language–English Bilinguals: Typical Bilingual Language Development

C Goodwin, D Lillo-Martin - Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Some studies have concluded that sign language hinders spoken language development
for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children even though sign language exposure could …

A Call for a Diversity of Perspectives in Deaf Education Research

JA Scott, HM Dostal, S Lane-Outlaw - American Annals of the Deaf, 2021 - JSTOR
Scott, Dostal, and Lane-Outlaw challenge findings and conclusions from a literature review
by Mayer and Trezek regarding the literacy achievement of deaf children who are educated …

Writing development in DHH students: A bimodal bilingual approach

M Gärdenfors - Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This article describes the lexical and syntactic development of written narratives in 24 deaf
and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students aged between 8 and 18 and takes into account how …

Lessons to be learned from bimodal bilingualism

D Lillo-Martin, D Gagne, D Chen Pichler - Hrvatska revija za …, 2022 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak This article presents a selective overview of topics related to the language
experience of early bimodal bilinguals-individuals who are raised from an early age using …