Title: Language learning and deafness /
Authors: Strong, Michael, 1945-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Sign Language; Manual Communication; Language Development; Education, Special; Deafness; Deaf Means of communication United States; Deaf children United States Language.; Deaf Education United States English language.
Contents: Language varieties in the deaf population and their acquisition by children and adults / Joseph H. Bochner and John A. Albertini -- American Sign Language and the human biological capacity for language / James Paul Gee and Wendy Goodhart -- The history of language use in the education of the deaf in the United States / Mimi WheiPing Lou -- Sign language instruction and its implications for the deaf / Steven Fritsch Rudser -- A bilingual approach to the education of young deaf children : ASL and English / Michael Strong -- An assessment of syntactic capabilities / Gerald P. Berent -- Children's new sign creations / Diane Lillo-Martin -- Linguistic and cultural role models for hearing-impaired children in elementary school programs / James Woodward, Thomas Allen, and Arthur Schildroth -- Acquiring linguistic and social identity : interactions of deaf children with a hearing teacher and a deaf adult / Carol J. Erting -- Development of vocal and signed communication in deaf and hearing twins of deaf parents / Martha Gonter Gaustad -- Questions and answers in the development of deaf children / Hilde Schlesinger.