Q: child directed speech: Blind Children

[Jean Berko Gleason]

Marita Boehning wrote:
>
> Dear Info-Childes members,
>
>     I am currently looking for publications or transcripts (German or
> English) that deal with child directed speech with/to blind children.  I
> am interested in their vocabulary acquisition and was wondering if child
> directed speech differs a lot in comparison to children that are not
> blind.
> There does not seem to be any transcripts of this kind in the database.
> Can anyone help?

I think that both Elaine Andersen (at USC) and Carolyn Johnson (at UBC)
have done work that is relevant to your question.  I don't have their
pubs list handy, though.

jean