Help: let them speak or sign their language

[Marinova-Todd, Stefka]

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


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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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