This chapter reviews published or known assessments of children's language proficiency
across a number of the world's signed languages, including American Sign Language …

RESPONDING TO AN ARTICLE by Grushkin on how deaf children best learn to read,
published, along with the present article, in an American Annals of the Deaf special issue …

This article extends current methodologies for the linguistic analysis of sign language
acquisition to cases of bimodal bilingual acquisition. Using ELAN, we are transcribing …

One way of increasing caregivers' language accessibility when interacting with a deaf child
is through visual communication strategies. By using both a longitudinal and cross-sectional …

Despite the current need for reliable and valid test instruments to monitor the sign language
acquisition of Deaf children in different countries, very few tests offering strong evidence for …

In this book a linguist and a biologist join forces to bring together studies of communicative
behaviour in different species. We present research on communicative functions …

This dissertation reports on a study on the acquisition of Sign Language of the Netherlands
(Nederlandse Gebarentaal, NGT) as a second or additional language in adult learners of …

This chapter provides researchers with a resource guide to making and managing video
recordings of sign language data and to undertaking linguistic annotation with available …

This article presents receptive and expressive American Sign Language skills of 85
students, 6 through 22 years of age at a residential school for the deaf using the American …

Sign language learners with a spoken language background face the challenge of acquiring
a second language in a different modality. In the course of this endeavor, one of the modality …