Infants with congenital deafness: On the importance of early sign language acquisition

American Annals of the Deaf

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 6-14

  Magnuson, Miriam ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SIGN LANGUAGE;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEAFNESS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; SIGN LANGUAGE; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0034150593     PISSN: 0002726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/aad.2012.0256     Document Type: Article

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