Baby Signing literature: summary

Wed Oct 17 12:32:53 UTC 2007

Dear Colleagues,

There were many helpful responses to my question about literature on 
baby signing. Below is a summary
of the references . (I prepared the list without further formatting).

Thank you for all your wonderful help!

PD. Dr. Mechthild Kiegelmann
University of Tübingen, Germany

*Web Sites:*

babysignal
Wiebke Gericke
http://www.babysignal.de

BabySigns
www.babysigns.com. Just follow the research "clickables."

Canadian Language & Literacy Research Network:
http://www.cllrnet.ca/news/inthenews/104

Signingsmart
Michelle Anthony and Reyna Lindert http://www.signingsmart.com

Signing Time
http://www.signingtime.com/article_info.php?articles_id=11
If you go toward the bottom, you will see a link to a pdf file that
has a bunch of references at the end.
http://www.signingtime.com/benefits/STResearch_Summary.pdf

Sign2me
Joseph Garcia at http://www.sign2me.com

*Books:*

Acredolo, L. P., & Goodwyn, S. W. (1998). Baby signs: How to
talk with your baby before your baby can talk. Chicago:
NTB/Contemporary Publishers.

Acredolo, L.,& Goodwyn, S. (1996). Baby Signs: How to talk with your 
baby before
your baby can talk. Chicago: NTB/Contemporary Publishers.

Daniels, M. (2001). Dancing with Words: Signing for Hearing Children's
Literacy. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin and Garvey
And research and publishing by Marylin Daniels

Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon: Was will das Kind mir sagen? Die
Körpersprache des Kindes verstehen lernen. Verlag Hans Huber, Bern
2005

Grabmeier, J. (1999). Infants use sign language to communicate at Ohio
State School. Newswise Press.
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/?id=SIGNLANG.OSU

Volterra, V., & Erting, C. J. (Eds.) (1990). From gesture to
language in hearing and deaf children (pp. 263-277). Berlin:
Springer-Verlag.

*Articles:*

Abrahamsen, A. (2000). Explorations of enhanced gestural input to 
children in the bimodal
period. In K. Emmorey and H. Lane (Eds.), The signs of language 
revisited: An anthology
to honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima (pp. 357-399). Hillsdale, NJ: 
Erlbaum.

Abrahamsen, A. A., Cavallo, M. M., & McCluer, J. A. (1985). Is the sign 
advantage a
robust phenomenon? From gesture to language in two modalities. 
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly,
31, 177-209.

Abrahamsen, A. A., Lamb, M., Brown-Williams, J., & McCarthy, S. (1991). 
Boundary
conditions on language emergence: Contributions from atypical learners 
and input. In P.
Siple & S. Fischer (Eds.), Theoretical issues in sign language research. 
Volume 2:
Psychology¬ (pp. 231-254). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Acredolo, L.,& Goodwyn, S. (1988). Symbolic gesturing in normal infants. 
Child Development, 59, 450-456.

Acredolo, L.,& Goodwyn, S. (1996). Baby Signs: How to talk with your 
baby before your baby can talk.
Chicago: NTB/Contemporary Publishers.

Acredolo, L.,& Goodwyn, S., Horobin, K., & Emmons, Y. (1999). The sign 
and sounds of early language
development. In L. Balter & C. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), Child psychology: A 
handbook of contemporary
issues. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.

Linda Acredolo, et al. (1999), The signs and sounds of early
langauge development. In C. Tamis-LeMonda & L. Balter (Eds.),
Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues. Garland
Press.

Baker, S. A., Golinkoff, R. M., & Petitto, L. A. (2006). New insights 
into old puzzles from
infants’ categorical discrimination of soundless phonetic units. 
Language Learning and Development, 2, 147-162.)

Beukelman & Mirenda (1998). Augmentative and alternative communication:
Management of severe communication disorders in children and adults. 2nd
ed. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes.

Folven, R. J., & Bonvillian, J. D. (1991). The transition from
nonreferential to referential language in children acquiring
American Sign Language. Developmental Psychology, 27, 806-816.

Goodwyn, S.W., Acredolo, L. P. & Brown, C. (2000). Impact of Symbolic
Gesturing on Early Language Development. Journal of Nonverbal
Behavior, 24, 81-103.

S. W. Goodwyn & L. P. Acredolo (1993), Symbolic gesture versus
word: Is there a modality advantage for onset of symbol use?
Child Development, 64, 688-701.

Iverson, J. M., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (Eds.) (1998). The nature
and functions of gesture in children's communication. New
Directions for Child Development, No. 79. Jossey-Bass.

Kangas, K. & Lloyd, F. (1988). Early cognitive skills as prerequisites to
augmentative and alternative communication use: What are we waiting for?
Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 4, 211-221.

Liang Wei-lan, Hao Bo, Zheng, Zhi-xiong, Tardif, T., Fletcher P3 (2005). 
Study of
Chinese children’s gesture development.

Lloyd, Fuller, & Arvidson (1997). Augmentative and alternative
communication: A handbook of principles and practices. Boston: Allyn and
Bacon.

Meier, R. P., & Newport, E. (1990). Out of the hands of babes:
on a possible sign advantage in language acquisition.
Language, 6, 1-23.

Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2005). Gesture is at the cutting edge
of early language development. Cognition, 96 (3), B101-B113.

Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2005). Do parents lead their children
by the hand? Journal of Child Language, 32 (3), 481-505.

Özçalışkan, Ş. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (under review). When gesture-speech
combinations do and do not index linguistic change. Language and Cognitive
Processes.

Reilly, R.G. (in press). The relationship between object manipulation and
language development in Broca's area: A connectionist simulation of 
Greenfield's
hypothesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Reilly, R.G. 1997. Brocas area and the development of object assembly 
and language production skills.
In: Proceedings of AI-97, University of Ulster, Magee College, September.

Reilly, R.G. 1997. Cortical software re-use: A neural basis for creative 
cognition.
In: Proceedings of Mind 2, Dublin City University, September.

The September 1997 issue of AAC: Augmentative and Alternative 
Communication (volume 13, number 3)
is dedicated to language development. Especially:
1. (Paul, R.) Facilitating Transitions in Language Development for
Children Using AAC
2. (Romski, Sevcik, & Adamson) Framework for Studying How Children
with Developmental Disabilities Develop Language through Augmented Means.

*Conference presentations*

Acredolo, L. P., & Goodwyn, S.W. (July 2000). The long-term impact of 
symbolic gesturing during
infancy on IQ at age 8. Paper presented at the meetings of the 
International Society for Infant Studies, Brighton, UK.

Kiegelmann, M. (2007). Evaluation of Baby Signing. Paper presented at 
the 13th European Conference
on Developmental Psychology. Jena, Germany.

Presentations at the SRCD 2007 Biennial Meeting 2007 in Boston, MA, USA
see: http://www.srcd.org/meeting/schedule/2007/searchview.cfm [10.10.2007]:
Claire D. Vallotton, Catherine Ayoub. Symbols as coping tools: Both 
words and gestures support toddlers'
development of self-regulation

Raedy M. Ping, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Mary-Anne V. Decatur: Gesture, 
Cognitive Load, and Non-Visible Objects

Makeba Parramore Wilbourn, Jenna Hallie Marshall, Marie-France Catherine 
Baveye, Marianella
Casasola: Developmental Changes in Infants' Association of Gestures 
Versus Words With Objects

Seyda Ozcaliskan, Susan Goldin-Meadow: Learning to Build Similarity 
Mappings in Gesture and Speech

Ann M. Mastergeorge, Lesley B. Olswang: The Role of Communicative 
Gestures in Mother-Infant
Dyads: The Trajectory of Joint Attention

Whitney Goodrich, Eve A. Sauer, Jana M. Iverson, Susan Goldin-Meadow: 
 From Children's Hands to Mothers' Mouth

Claire D. Vallotton, Catherine Ayoub: Gesture as communication & 
thought? Predicting development of engagement skills and 
social-emotional concepts in young children

Elizabeth Crais, Linda R. Watson, Grace T. Baranek: Early and Later 
Gestures Use in Infants with Autism Spectrum Disorders

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A search in the archive of this list showed that I am not the first one 
to ask the question about baby signing literature. A search found the 
following mails (Thank you, Adele Abrahamsen for the tip with the Archive!)
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa [search with “sign” and 
“bab” on 11.10.2007]
004308 07/10/06 09:56 47 Literature on Baby Signing
000865 00/04/01 15:44 51 signing in hearing babies
000863 00/03/30 13:58 68 Signing babies
000858 00/03/30 09:23 35 Re: signing in hearing babies
000850 00/03/29 11:15 59 Signing in hearing babies
000856 00/03/27 10:37 53 Re: signing in hearing babies
000847 00/03/25 17:21 216 Re: signing in hearing babies
000845 00/03/24 16:05 21 signing in hearing babies
000846 00/03/24 14:08 21 Re: signing in hearing babies
000081 99/01/15 17:00 31 Baby signs: THANK YOU!
000078 99/01/15 14:12 32 Baby Signs story
000080 99/01/15 12:04 50 More on Baby signs
000075 99/01/14 19:09 94 Re: "Baby Signs" -- good thing or not?
000074 99/01/14 15:36 56 teaching babies signs
000071 99/01/13 18:59 38 Re: Baby Signs
000069 99/01/13 16:52 21 Baby Signs
000068 99/01/12 23:44 42 "Baby Signs" -- good thing or not?