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<div>Here is a reference to a relatively recent critical review of the evidence. The American Acedemics of Pediatrics has successfully prosecuted publishers of these materials.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Isabelle Barriere, PhD</div>
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<h2>Teaching gestural signs to infants to advance child development: A review of the evidence </h2><strong>J. Cyne Johnston </strong>
<p><strong>Andrée Durieux-Smith </strong>
<p><font size="-1">University of Ottawa </font>
<p><strong>Kathleen Bloom </strong>
<p><font size="-1">University of Waterloo </font>
<p>Should parents be encouraged to teach their hearing infants<sup> </sup>to communicate using gestural signs? Does signing<sup> </sup>in infancy advance child behaviour and development as <sup></sup>claimed by many commercially available products for<sup> </sup>parents? To answer these questions, a review<sup> </sup>was undertaken to evaluate currently available research studies<sup> </sup>that examined the effectiveness of prelingual<sup> </sup>signing for normally developing, hearing infants.<sup> </sup>Databases, reference lists and the Internet were searched for<sup> </sup>relevant documents using a pre-determined search<sup> </sup>protocol. Seventeen reports met the review’s<sup> </sup>inclusion criteria and were retrieved and evaluated. The review<sup> </sup>failed to support claims that signing facilitates<sup> </sup>language development, due to insufficiencies<sup> </sup>in scientific methods and to equivocal results.<sup> </sup>
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<p><strong>Key Words:</strong> Gestures • infants • pre-lingual • sign language • review
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<p>First Language, Vol. 25, No. 2, 235-251 (2005)<br>DOI: 10.1177/0142723705050340<br></p></font><br><br></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Ngoni Chipere <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ngoni.chipere@gmail.com">ngoni.chipere@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Dear all<br><br>I know this thread is done, but it seems like some research has been carried out in this general area (in case nobody has mentioned this)<br>
<br><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100301165612.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100301165612.htm</a><br><br>Look under Related Stories on the right of the article for more articles on the issue.<br>
<br>best wishes<br><font color="#888888"><br>Ngoni Chipere</font>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Liz P. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lizspeedvelmag@gmail.com" target="_blank">lizspeedvelmag@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Hello Everybody,<br>I have a 16 month old baby girl, and i just recently acquired the Your<br>
Baby Can Read Program, but when i started watching it, it seems too<br>good to be true, and i was asking my Language Acquisition professor<br>and she suggested that i inquire within to see if anyone knows the<br>research behind this program and if there are any down falls or<br>
reasons why i shouldnt continue with the program with my daughter. I<br>can see the Pros (shell learn to read and expand her vocabulary) but<br>what would the Cons be. Thank you so much for your time. Any comments<br>will be appreciated<br>
<br>Liz Pattison<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br></font>
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