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Musselman, Carol Reich; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
A longitudinal study of the effect of mothers' communication modes on the language development of children (N=149) with severe or profound hearing loss indicated that children whose mothers used oral communication had higher scores on measures of spoken language, whereas children whose mothers used manual communication had higher scores on…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Deafness, Language Acquisition
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de Villiers, Jill; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1993
Reports on a longitudinal study of developing communication in two profoundly deaf preschool boys growing up in oral deaf families who use oral English as their primary language. Results provide a window on the natural ontogenesis of a compensatory gestural system. (Contains 44 references.) (JL)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, English, Language Research