Bilingualism and attention: A study of balanced and unbalanced bilingual deaf users of American sign language and English

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 263-273

  Kushalnagar, Poorna ^a   Hannay, H Julia ^b   Hernandez, Arturo E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATIENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIGN LANGUAGE; UNITED STATES; DEAFNESS; MULTILINGUALISM;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIGN LANGUAGE; UNITED STATES; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS;

EID: 77955640351     PISSN: 10814159     EISSN: 14657325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/deafed/enq011     Document Type: Article

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