Help: let them speak or sign their language

Mon Dec 9 00:51:51 UTC 2013

Dear all,

I am replying by repeating what deaf acquaintances of mine have said to me.
To wit, If you are deaf you should learn sign because

(a) when you take your implant off to swim, shower, etc. you are deaf.
(b) someday you may have an infection or something may happen so that your
cochlear implant will not work or be tolerable, and then you will be deaf.
(c) cochlear implants have variable outcomes. Simultaneous sign may help
when the auditory signal doesn't quite do it.

Erika Hoff

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Roberta Golinkoff <Roberta at udel.edu> wrote:

> Hi Aliyah!
>
> Sorry to be late in joining the party!
>
> For your first question, here are 3 papers that make the clear case that
> the earlier the implantation for deaf kids the better. If implantation is
> done early, the use of sign may become moot -- children are also offered
> therapy.  However, if implantation is done later, it would seem clear that
> they should be offered sign ASAP.  I have no trouble with the notion of
> bilingual-bimodal as long as kids are flooded with oral input and not told
> to turn off their devices, a practice I have heard of.
>
> For your second questions, there will be an SRCD Social Policy report:
>
> McCabe, A., Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Bornstein, M. H., Cates, D. B.,
> Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Hoff, E., Kuchirko, Y., Melzi, G.,
> Mendelsohn, A., Paez, M., Song, L, & Guerra, A. W. (In press). Multilingual
> children: Beyond myths and towards best practices.  *Social Policy
> Report, *Society for Research in Child Development.  It will hopefully
> come out early in 2014.
>
> We addressed four questions:
>
> 1. What are the broad social and historical contexts of multilingual
> learners in the United States?
>
> 2. What does a multilingual family look like?
>
> 3. What lessons learned with monolingual children can be applied to
> multilingual children?
>
> 4. What contexts support learning multiple languages?
> I think this will be very helpful to you Aliyah, when it emerges.
>
> All best and happy holidays to you and all my other language friends!
> Roberta
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Eileen Graf <eileen.graf at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dear Aliyah,
>>
>>  You might find these helpful:
>>
>> [1] Place, Silvia & Hoff, Erika (2011). Properties of Dual Language
>> Exposure That Influence 2-Year-Olds’ Bilingual Proficiency. Child
>> Development:
>>
>> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01660.x/abstract
>>
>> *[2] Davidson, Kathryn, Lillo-Martin, Diane & Chen Pichler (in press).
>> Spoken English language measures of native signing children with cochlear
>> implants. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
>> <http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/10/16/deafed.ent045.abstract>.*
>> Best,
>> Eileen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26 November 2013 15:01, Marinova-Todd, Stefka <
>> stefka at audiospeech.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Aliyah,
>>>
>>> I am not aware of papers that speak to your first question, i.e., sign
>>> language, although there are probably some.
>>>
>>> Regarding your second question, there are a few, mostly qualitative
>>> studies done on the effect (usually negative) of the recommendation by
>>> professionals to parents of bilingual children with autism to speak only
>>> one language (usually English in the North American context):
>>>
>>> 1) Jegatheesan, B. (2011). Multilingual development in children with
>>> autism: Perspectives of South Asian Muslim immigrant parents on raising a
>>> child with a communicative disorder in multilingual contexts. Bilingual
>>> Research Journal, 34, 185-200.
>>>
>>> 2) Kay‐Raining Bird, E., Lamond, E., & Holden, J. (2012).  Survey of
>>> bilingualism in autism spectrum disorders.  International Journal of
>>> Language & Communication Disorders, 47, 52-64.
>>>
>>> 3) Kremer-Sadlik, T. (2005). To be or not to be bilingual: Autistic
>>> children from multilingual families. In J. Cohen, K. T. McAlister, K.
>>> Rolstad, & J. MacSwan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International
>>> Symposium on Bilingualism (pp. 1225-1234). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
>>>
>>> 4) Yu, B. (2013).  Issues in bilingualism and heritage language
>>> maintenance: Perspectives of minority-language mothers of children with
>>> autism spectrum disorders.  American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology,
>>> 22, 10-24.
>>>
>>> I hope those are of use to you.
>>> Best,
>>> Stefka
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:
>>> info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aliyah MORGENSTERN
>>> Sent: November 26, 2013 1:55 PM
>>> To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
>>> Subject: Help: let them speak or sign their language
>>>
>>> Dear info-childes,
>>> I need to find good scientific proof it you think it is relevant and
>>> exists that
>>> 1) it is better for deaf children  (even if they get cochlear implants
>>> quite young) or children who because of some rare patholgoy cannot speak
>>> (like Cornelia de Lange Syndrome) to be "given" a sign language a soon a
>>> possible and to be raised bilingual (bimodal);
>>> 2) it is better for immigrant parents to speak their native language to
>>> their children (unless they are strong psychological or other reasons not
>>> to) rather than a language they are not experts in and for primary school
>>> teachers not to put pressure on the parents for them to only speak the
>>> language of the country they live in;
>>>
>>> Any good papers (if possible the actual paper) or references welcome
>>> especially if they treat both those issues together!
>>>
>>> Happy Thanksgiving to our American colleagues and Happy Chanukah to our
>>> Jewish colleagues (and whoever celebrates those holidays). Sorry if I don't
>>> know about other holidays coming up in the next few days!
>>> Best,
>>> Aliyah
>>>
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Department of Psychology
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