literacy and deafness

[Gisela Szagun]

Hi Dan,
Thanks for this letter. I am giving a talk at a  conference of german
federal association of parents of deaf children. Your letter is support for
my view and for their demands! Gisela
Am 25.04.2014 08:09 schrieb "Aliyah MORGENSTERN" <
aliyah.morgenstern at gmail.com>:

> From Dan Slobin
>
> Issues of deafness and literacy acquisition were raised in the April 15
> science section of the New York Times.  I wrote a reply that was published
> in the April 22 section.  Here is my reply, with a link to the April 15
> article.
>
> Dan Slobin
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *A version of this letter appears in print on April 22, 2014, on page D3
> of the New York edition with the headline: Reactions. *
>
> TO THE EDITOR:
>
> I’ve spent over 50 years studying how children learn language, including
> many languages, spoken and signed. In “A Son’s Deafness Prompts a
> Scientific Journey<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/health/a-sons-deafness-prompts-a-scientific-journey.html>”
> (April 15), Katherine Bouton notes that many deaf children who are raised
> with American Sign Language succeed in learning to read and write English
> as a second language, while the median reading ability by age 18 in deaf
> children overall remains stuck at a fourth-grade level. Although she
> correctly observes that early communication in A.S.L. is the key, she does
> not draw the conclusion — supported now by research in several countries —
> that when hearing parents begin to use sign language as soon as their baby
> is diagnosed as deaf, those children achieve levels of language, cognition
> and literacy comparable to those of deaf children with deaf parents. As Ms.
> Bouton reports, cochlear implants have mixed results. The best insurance
> for hearing parents of babies with implants is to learn A.S.L. and to use
> both hands and voice in communicating with their small children. Native
> fluency in A.S.L. provides a bridge to English literacy and, if partial
> hearing is available, to spoken English.
>
> Dan I. Slobin
>
> Berkeley, Calif.
>
> *The writer is an emeritus professor of psychology and linguistics.*
>
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