How do deaf and deafblind individuals process touch? This question offers a unique model
to understand the prospects and constraints of neural plasticity. Our brain constantly …

The comprehension of signed language requires linguistic and visual–spatial processing,
such as perspective‐taking for correctly interpreting the layout of a spatial scene. However …

This review addresses the question: How are signed languages learned by adult hearing
learners? While there has been much research on second language learners of spoken …

In second language research, the concept of cross-linguistic influence or transfer has
frequently been used to describe the interaction between the first language (L1) and second …

Deaf signing communities vary in ways crucial to our understanding of firstlanguage
acquisition in the children of those communities and to our understanding of first-language …

O desenvolvimento de currículos de línguas de sinais é um acontecimento contemporâneo
que poucos países puderam implementar oficialmente para ensinar a Língua de Sinais …

Acquisition of pronominal forms by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) continues
to garner significant attention due to the unusual ways that such children produce and …

The representation of the metrics of the hands is distorted, but is susceptible to malleability
due to expert dexterity (magicians) and long-term tool use (baseball players). However, it …

Resumo The Sign Language curriculum is a contemporary development which few
countries have officially implemented to teach a national standard Sign Language as a first …

The most fundamental way in which human languages vary—their most essential
typological dimension—lies in their “modality” of production and perception. Human …