Deaf and Hearing American Sign Language-English Bilinguals: Typical Bilingual Language Development.

ABSTRACT: Some studies have concluded that sign language hinders spoken language development for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children even though sign language exposure could protect DHH children from experiencing language deprivation. Furthermore, this research has rarely considered the bilingualism of children learning a signed and a spoken language. Here we compare spoken English development in 2-6-year-old deaf and hearing American Sign Language-English bilingual children to each other and to monolingual English speakers in a comparison database. Age predicted bilinguals' language scores on all measures, whereas hearing status was only significant for one measure. Both bilingual groups tended to score below monolinguals. Deaf bilinguals' scores differed more from monolinguals, potentially bec

SUBMITTER: Goodwin C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10516340 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature