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ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Deaf Children Need Rich Language Input from the Start: Support in Advising Parents.

Tom Humphries, Gaurav Mathur, Donna Jo Napoli, Carol Padden, Christian Rathmann

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Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Tom HumphriesDepartment of Communication, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1824-9045
Gaurav MathurDepartment of Linguistics, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC 20002, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7941-9538
Donna Jo NapoliDepartment of Linguistics, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6320-1086
Carol PaddenDivision of Social Sciences, Department of Communication and Dean, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Christian RathmannDepartment of Deaf Studies and Sign Language Interpreting, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10019 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9191-7612
University of California San Diego · USGallaudet University · USHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin · DESwarthmore College · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bilingual bimodalism is a great benefit to deaf children at home and in schooling. Deaf signing children perform better overall than non-signing deaf children, regardless of whether they use a cochlear implant. Raising a deaf child in a speech-only environment can carry cognitive and psycho-social risks that may have lifelong adverse effects. For children born deaf, or who become deaf in early childhood, we recommend comprehensible multimodal language exposure and engagement in joint activity with parents and friends to assure age-appropriate first-language acquisition. Accessible visual language input should begin as close to birth as possible. Hearing parents will need timely and extensive support; thus, we propose that, upon the birth of a deaf child and through the preschool years, among other things, the family needs an adult deaf presence in the home for several hours every day to be a linguistic model, to guide the family in taking sign language lessons, to show the family how to make spoken language accessible to their deaf child, and to be an encouraging liaison to deaf communities. While such a support program will be complicated and challenging to implement, it is far less costly than the harm of linguistic deprivation.

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bilingual bimodal educationbimodal-bilingual childrearingdeaf childrenindividual and family well-beingsign language

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