Ensuring language acquisition for deaf children: What linguists can do

Language

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Humphries, Tom ^a   Kushalnagar, Poorna ^b   Mathur, Gaurav ^c   Napoli, Donna Jo ^d   Padden, Carol ^a   Rathmann, Christian ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Deaf children's rights; Ethics and activism in scholarship; First language acquisition; Sign languages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903160376     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2014.0036     Document Type: Article

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