Help: let them speak or sign their language

Wed Nov 27 16:50:37 UTC 2013

Hi Aliyah!

Re your CI speak/sign question, there is an excellent article in press by 
Bencie Woll and colleagues that shows it is imperative that children 
receive symbolic input from very early on, regardless of whether it is 
gestural or oral (for Deaf children): 

*Lyness, C.R., Woll, B., Campbell, R., & Vardin, V. (in press). How does 
visual language affect crossmodal plasticity and cochlear implant success? 
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews (2013), 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.08.011*
Re your question regarding home language use by parents in immigration 
situations: 
allow me to refer you to extensive discussion in Chapter 4 of De Houwer, 
A., 2009. Bilingual First Language Acquisition, Bristol: Multilingual 
Matters, and in my recent article on psycho-emotional aspects of language 
selection/use in bilingual settings ( De Houwer, A., 2013. Harmonious 
bilingual development: young families' well-being in language contact 
situations. *International Journal of Bilingualism*, first published online 
June 11, 2013, doi:10.1177/1367006913489202). May I stress that according 
to the UN Charter on Children's Rights children have a right to their 
parents' culture and language - so recommendations that they are to be 
blocked from access to these are morally not acceptable. 

Hope this helps.
--Annick

On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 7:51:07 AM UTC+1, Esther wrote:
>
> Wow this is great Eileen, thank you very much!
> I'll try to put this all together and send it to Brian if it's dense 
> enough for the CHILDES website.
> Best,
> Aliyah
> Le 27 nov. 2013 à 03:16, Eileen Graf a écrit :
>
> 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 <
> ste... at audiospeech.ubc.ca <javascript:>> 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
>>
>>
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>> Sent: November 26, 2013 1:55 PM
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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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