The relationship between the reading and signing skills of deaf children in bilingual education programs

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 518-530

  Hermans, Daan ^a   Knoors, Harry ^a,b   Ormel, Ellen ^a,b   Verhoeven, Ludo ^b  

^a Behavioral Science Institute ^*

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGN LANGUAGE;

CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DEAFNESS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; NETHERLANDS; READING; SIGN LANGUAGE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 52649175968     PISSN: 10814159     EISSN: 14657325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/deafed/enn009     Document Type: Article

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