Help: let them speak or sign their language

Mon Dec 9 11:50:35 UTC 2013

Thank you very much Ignacio, this is very helpful and I'll ask Marie-Thérèse some more details about her study and the future outcomes.
My very best,
Aliyah
Le 9 déc. 2013 à 10:59, Ignacio Moreno Torres Sanchez a écrit :

> 
> Dear Aliah,
> Maybe one way to show the limitations of CIs is is to demostrate the
> increased benefits of external support (i.e. if the CIs were so good,
> increased external support would be innecessary).
> 
> This is a group study with children implanted relativel late (> 3 years old:
> 
> Le Normand, M. T., & Moreno-Torres, I. (2013). The role of linguistic and
> environmental factors on grammatical development in French children with
> cochlear implants. Lingua. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2013.02.012
> 
> These two studies documented  the outcomes of a deaf child with
> CI and ADHD, and who was exposed to Cued Speech. We did not know she had
> ADHD when we wrote the first paper. We attributed that good outcomes to
> being exposed to Cued Speech.
> 
> Moreno-Torres, I., & Torres, S. (2008). From 1-word to 2-words with
> cochlear implant and cued speech: A case study. Clinical Linguistics &
> Phonetics, 22(7), 491-508. doi:10.1080/02699200801899145
> 
> Moreno-Torres, I., Torres, S., & Santana, R. (2010). Lexical and
> grammatical development in a child with cochlear implant and attention
> deficit: A case study. Clinical linguistics & phonetics, 24(9), 706-721.
> doi:10.3109/02699206.2010.488782
> 
> 
> Best,
> Ignacio Moreno-Torres
> University of Málaga, Spain
> 
> 
>> I agree Erika that we should absolutely promote, bimodal bilingualism, but
>> it is extremely difficult in France to overcome the medical body's own
>> deafness to the soundest arguments, so I need to accumulate scientific
>> arguments through all those papers the list has been sending me.
>> We will be summarizing all the studies we can get in the next six months
>> in order to construct  solid arguments.
>> My very best,
>> Aliyah
>> 
>> Le 9 déc. 2013 à 01:51, Erika Hoff a écrit :
>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> I am replying by repeating what deaf acquaintances of mine have said to
>>> me. To wit, If you are deaf you should learn sign because
>>> 
>>> (a) when you take your implant off to swim, shower, etc. you are deaf.
>>> (b) someday you may have an infection or something may happen so that
>>> your cochlear implant will not work or be tolerable, and then you will
>>> be deaf.
>>> (c) cochlear implants have variable outcomes. Simultaneous sign may help
>>> when the auditory signal doesn't quite do it.
>>> 
>>> Erika Hoff
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Roberta Golinkoff <Roberta at udel.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi Aliyah!
>>> 
>>> Sorry to be late in joining the party!
>>> 
>>> For your first question, here are 3 papers that make the clear case that
>>> the earlier the implantation for deaf kids the better. If implantation
>>> is done early, the use of sign may become moot -- children are also
>>> offered therapy.  However, if implantation is done later, it would seem
>>> clear that they should be offered sign ASAP.  I have no trouble with the
>>> notion of bilingual-bimodal as long as kids are flooded with oral input
>>> and not told to turn off their devices, a practice I have heard of.
>>> 
>>> For your second questions, there will be an SRCD Social Policy report:
>>> 
>>> McCabe, A., Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Bornstein, M. H., Cates, D. B.,
>>> Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Hoff, E., Kuchirko, Y., Melzi, G.,
>>> Mendelsohn, A., Paez, M., Song, L, & Guerra, A. W. (In press).
>>> Multilingual children: Beyond myths and towards best practices.  Social
>>> Policy Report, Society for Research in Child Development.  It will
>>> hopefully come out early in 2014.
>>> 
>>> We addressed four questions:
>>> 
>>> 1. What are the broad social and historical contexts of multilingual
>>> learners in the United States?
>>> 
>>> 2. What does a multilingual family look like?
>>> 
>>> 3. What lessons learned with monolingual children can be applied to
>>> multilingual children?
>>> 
>>> 4. What contexts support learning multiple languages?
>>> 
>>> I think this will be very helpful to you Aliyah, when it emerges.
>>> 
>>> All best and happy holidays to you and all my other language friends!
>>> Roberta
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Eileen Graf
>>> <eileen.graf at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>> Best,
>>> Eileen
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 26 November 2013 15:01, Marinova-Todd, Stefka
>>> <stefka at audiospeech.ubc.ca> 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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>>> From: info-childes at googlegroups.com
>>> [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aliyah MORGENSTERN
>>> Sent: November 26, 2013 1:55 PM
>>> To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
>>> 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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