Early manual communication in relation to the deaf child's intellectual, social, and communicative functioning...Originally published in the American Annals of the Deaf, 113, 29-41, it is reprinted here with permission of the publisher

The basic impoverishment of deafness is not lack of hearing but lack of language. To illustrate this, we have only to compare a 4-year-old hearing child, with a working vocabulary of between 2,000 and 3,000 words, to a child of the same age, profoundly deaf since infancy, who may have only a few wor...

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Publicado en:Journal of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 321 - 330
Autor principal: Meadow KP
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Fall2005
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