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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Published in:Journal of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 321 - 330
Main Author: Meadow KP
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Fall2005
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        affil: Professor Emerita, Gallaudet University; kayorlans@comcast.net
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          Child Development
          Deafness In Adulthood
          Deafness In Infancy and Childhood
          Sign Language In Infancy and Childhood
          Adolescence
          Adult
          California
          Child
          Child, Preschool
          Comparative Studies
          Descriptive Statistics
          Female
          Intelligence
          Intelligence Tests
          Male
          Parents
          Scales
          Socialization
          T-Tests
          Human
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Child: 6-12 years
          Child, Preschool: 2-5 years
          Female
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      ab: 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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