Sign learning and its use in a co-enrollment kindergarten setting.

ABSTRACT: Experimental studies report positive effects of signing for language acquisition and communication in children with and without language development delays. However, little data are available on natural kindergarten settings. Therefore, our study used questionnaire data to investigate the sign learning in hearing children (aged 3;7-5;9 years) with and without language development delays in an inclusive kindergarten group with a co-enrolled deaf child (aged 3;8  years) and a deaf signing educator. We observed that the hearing children in this co-enrollment group learned more signs than the hearing children from groups with only hearing educators who learned signs in a training program. Hearing children's sign learning showed a tendency toward correlating positively with their level of spoke

SUBMITTER: Goppelt-Kunkel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9493243 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature