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Download full textBonvillian, John D.; And Others – 1993
This study examined young children's hand usage when they produced American Sign Language signs and while they played, in order to determine their hand preference in early signing and to compare their hand use in signing with their hand preference in other, nonlinguistic, motor actions. Subjects were 24 young children (from the age of 12 months or…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Handedness, Manual Communication
