late talkers using sign language

[John D. Bonvillian]

Dear Katerina Marshfield,
	The two citations I was able to recall are only
indirectly related to your specific concern.  I hope that
they prove helpful.  They are:
	Brookner, S. P., & Murphy, N. O. (1975).  The use
of a total communication approach with a nondeaf child: A
case study.  Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in
Schools, 6, 131-139.
	Caparulo, B. K., & Cohen, D. J. (1977). Cognitive
structures, language, and emerging social competence in
autistic and aphasic children.  Journal of the American
Academy of Child Psychiatry, 16, 620-645.
			Sincerely,
                        John Bonvillian
On Mon, 6 May 2002 13:03:26 +0200 Katerina Marshfield
<katmarsh at web.de> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am looking for references to studies of children, who due to a traumatic birth suffer from belated growth and ability to walk and talk, and develop their own sign language to comunicate. In the concrete case, that I am dealing with, the child has grown a head disproportionate to its body, started to walk at the age of about 34 months, and at the age of 3,5 it can only say a couple of words in English and Swedish (English being the mother tongue of his father and Swedish that of his mother) helping itself with a sign language it has developed. It has had no previous contact with any community using sign language.
>
> Can anybody out there help me please?
>
> Thanking you all in advance.
>
> Katerina Marshfield
> Research Assistant
> Department of English Linguistics
> TU Braunschweig
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> Germany
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