Blind children: Summary

[Åsa Nordqvist]

Thankyou all who responded to my request of literature from the area of 
language development in blind children! Please find below a summary of 
the references I got. I particularly want to thank Miguel Pérez Pereira 
who sent a long list of references.
Best
Asa


(There might be double references in the list.)
  Andersen, E.S.; Dunlea, A. & Kekelis, L. (1984). Blind children´s 
language:
Resolving some differences. Journal of Child Language, 11, 645-664.
Andersen, E.S.; Dunlea, A. & Kekelis, L. (1993). The impact of input:
Language acquisition in the visually impaired. First Language, 13, 
23-49.
Bigelow, A. (1987). Early words of blind children. Journal of Child
Language, 14, 47-56.
Bigelow, A. (1990). Relationships between the development of language 
and
thought in young blind children. Journal of Visual Impairment and 
Blindness,
15, 414-419.
Brown, R.; Hobson, R.P.; Lee, A. & Stevenson, J. (1997). Are there
"autistic-like" features in congenitally blind children? Journal of 
Child
Psychology and Psychiatry, 38, 693-703.
Burlingham, D. (1964). Hearing and its role in the development of the 
blind.
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 19, 95-112.
Burlingham, D. (1965). Some problems of ego development in blind 
children.
The Psychoanalysic Study of the Child, 20, 194-208.
Castro, J. & Pérez Pereira, M. (1996). Funciones comunicativas del 
lenguaje
de niños ciegos y videntes. Infancia y Aprendizaje, 74, 139-154.
Civelli, E.M. (1983). Verbalism in young blind children. Journal of 
Visual
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Conti-Ramsden, G. & Pérez-Pereira, M. Conversational interactions 
between
mothers and their infants who are congenitally blind, have low vision, 
or
are sighted. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1999, 93, 
691-703.
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American
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Dunlea, A. & Andersen, E. L. (1992). The emergence process: conceptual 
and
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95-115.
Dunlea, A. (1984). The relation between concept formation and semantic
roles: Some evidence from the blind. In L. Feagans; Garvey, C. & 
Golinkoff,
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Dunlea, A. (1989). Vision and the emergence of meaning. Blind and 
sighted
children`s early language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Erin, J.N. (1986). Frequencies and types of questions in the language of
visually impaired children. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 
80,
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Fraiberg, S. (1977). Insights from the blind. London: Souvenir Press.
(Traducción española: Niños ciegos. INSERSO, 1981)
Fraiberg, S. & Adelson, E. (1973). Self-representation in language and 
play:
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Iverson, J. M. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (1997). What's communication got to 
do
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Psychology, 33,
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Keeler, W.R. (1957). Autistic patterns and defective communication in 
blind
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Kekelis, L.S. & Andersen, E.S. (1984). Family communication styles and
language development. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 78, 
54-65.
Kitzinger, M. (1984). The role of repeated and echoed utterances in
communication with a blind child. British Journal of Disorders of
Communication, 19, 135-146.
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deficient.
London: Croom Helm.
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retrospective
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Landau, B. & Gleitman, L.R. (1985). Language and experience. Evidence 
from
the blind. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
McGinnis, A.R. (1981) Functional linguistic strategies of blind 
children.
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Miecznikowski, A. & Andersen, E. (1986). From formulaic to analysed 
speech:
Two systems or one? In J. Connor-Linton; C. J. Hall & M. McGinnis 
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California.
Mills, A. (1993). Visual handicap. In D. Bishop & K. Mogford (Eds.),
Language development under exceptional circumstances. Hove, U.K.: 
Lawrence
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Mills, A.E. (1987). The development of phonology in the blind child. In 
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reading.
London: Erlbaum.
Moore, V. & McConachie, H. (1994). Communication between blind children 
and
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of
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Mulford, R. (1983). Referential development in blind children. In A.E. 
Mills
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London: Croom Helm.
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Locke (Eds.), The emergent lexicon. New York: Academic Press.
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refer: how the study of blind infants informs theoretical frameworks of
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on
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Pérez Pereira, M. & Castro, J. (1992). Pragmatic functions of blind and
sighted children`s language: a twin case study. First Language, 12, 
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Pérez-Pereira, M. (1994). Imitations, repetitions, routines, and the 
child´s
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Pérez Pereira, M. (1999). Deixis, personal reference, and the use of
pronouns by blind children. Journal of Child Language, 26, 655-680.
Pérez Pereira, M. y Castro, J. (1994). El desarrollo psicológico de 
niños
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Pérez Pereira, M. y Castro, J. (1995). Repercusiones evolutivas de las
formas de interacción y comunicación en el niño ciego (Developmental
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Pérez Pereira, M. & Castro, J. (1997). Language acquisition and the
compensation of visual deficit: New comparative data on a controversial
topic. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15, 439-459.
Pérez-Pereira, M. & Conti-Ramsden, G. (1999). Social interaction and
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Pérez-Pereira, M. & Conti-Ramsden, G.(2001). The  use of directives in
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Peters, A. (1987). The role of imitation in the developing syntax of a 
blind
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linguistic
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infants
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development in
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language
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language in
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the
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Normal and Deficient". 1983. London: Croom Helm Ltd.
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Blindness and psychological development in young
children by Vicky Lewis and Glyn Collis (Eds). Published by BPS in 1997

Un-Locke-ing language learning:  Evidence from a blind child.  A review 
of B.  Landau & L.  Gleitman, Language and experience: Evidence from 
blind children.  Language, 60, 143-145.
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