The cultural bounds of maternal accommodation: How Chinese and American Mothers Communicate with Deaf and Hearing Children

Psychological Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 307-314

  Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a   Saltzman, Jody ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION METHODS, TOTAL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEAFNESS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PHILADELPHIA; TAIWAN;

EID: 0034231269     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00261     Document Type: Article

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