Help: let them speak or sign their language

Mon Dec 9 03:31:58 UTC 2013

Deb Chen Pichler/Gallaudet presented a co-authored paper at BU this year
that speaks to this issue:

Spoken language development in native signing children with cochlear
implants

*K. Davidson, D. Lillo-Martin, D. Chen Pichler*

*Their results show that children exposed to ASL from birth do not suffer
from lg and cognitive delay observed in children with CI without ASL
exposure. *

*Isabelle Barriere, PhD*

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Erika Hoff <erikachoff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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