Help: let them speak or sign their language

Mon Dec 9 12:45:05 UTC 2013

Salut Aliyah,

Here you are:

deborah.pichler at gallaudet.edu

Isabelle

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Isa Barriere <barriere.isa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Deb Chen Pichler/Gallaudet presented a co-authored paper at BU this year
> that speaks to this issue:
>
> Spoken language development in native signing children with cochlear
> implants
>
> *K. Davidson, D. Lillo-Martin, D. Chen Pichler*
>
>
> *Their results show that children exposed to ASL from birth do not suffer
> from lg and cognitive delay observed in children with CI without ASL
> exposure. *
>
> *Isabelle Barriere, PhD*
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Erika Hoff <erikachoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>> <http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/10/16/deafed.ent045.abstract>.*
>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> 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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