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The emergence of finger pointing 29 Sep 2012 | 04:00 am
The emergence of finger pointing about one and half month after the emergence of canonical babbling in ASL.
Deaf rapper feels the music and sings by signing 15 Apr 2012 | 11:00 am
Growing up in Helsinki, he “translated” Christmas carols into sign language so that the entire family (his parents are deaf, his grandparents are not) could perform together — a bilingual affair uniti...
Language acquisition for deaf children 11 Apr 2012 | 12:00 am
Reducing the harms of zero tolerance to the use of alternative approaches for deaf children in language acquisition.
Sign language dinner tests students' communication skills 11 Apr 2012 | 12:00 am
That was the challenge for students in the advanced American Sign Language class at Land O'Lakes High. Their assignment: to eat, drink and use only sign language to carry a conversation during a dinne...
Baby talk: gaze shifting between picture and ASL word 8 Apr 2012 | 12:00 am
A post for this week on the blog Baby Talk in ASL: Gaze shifting between picture and ASL word.
Indianapolis Student Bridges Deaf And Hearing Culture 7 Apr 2012 | 12:00 am
When she was less than two years old, the Katters decided to teach their daughter sign language and enroll her in classes at the Indiana School for the Deaf (ISD) in Indianapolis. Neither of Margaret ...
Clearing up common myths about being bilingual 7 Apr 2012 | 12:00 am
An interview with Francois Grosjean by Nataly Kelly, Chief Research Offier, Common Sense Advisory.
Language and literacy development in ASL 22 Feb 2012 | 05:00 pm
The posts and videos of the first month of the second year are now available on the website. Watch how the first words began to unfold one after another. The beginning of a one-word stage. Pointing at...
Linguist Considers 'What Language Is' — And Isn't 6 Aug 2011 | 12:00 am
It's very much a language of it's own ... In fact people who study creole languages, like Jamaican Patois, Haitian Creole ... see a lot of likeness between the gramatical structure of those languages ...
