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...
| Published in: | Journal of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 321 - 330 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Fall2005
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| Summary: | 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 words at his command. Even more important than vocabulary level, however, is the child's ability to use his language for expressing ideas, needs, and feelings. By the age of 4 years, the hearing child in all cultures has already grasped the rules of grammar syntax that enable him or her to combine words in meaningful ways. |
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