Why ASL?
Researched and produced by Justin Jackerson
Mayberry, Rachel (1998) The critical period for language acquisition and the deaf child’s language comprehension: A psycholinguistic approach. Bulletin d’Audiophonologie: Annales Scientifiques de L’UniversiteĢ de Franche-ComteĢ, 15
Woolfe, Tyron/Herman, Rosalind/Roy, Penny/Woll, Bencie (2010), Early Lexical Development in Native Signers: A BSL Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI. In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 51, 322–331.
Pichler, Debbie C. LIN 510: Introduction to first and second language acquisition. Gallaudet University, Washington D.C.. Sep. 2011. Lectures.
Special thanks to Dr. Deborah Chen Pichler for making this happen.
Sunday, October 30th, 2011. Filed under: L1 Linguistics
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Wow – if only more speech therapists could see this…more administrators…if they could get statistics in their hands that bear out this truth – couldn’t it change the lives of so many deaf children? I would love to see this information passed on to those in charge of education in my state, by professionals whose words would be listened to!
Yes I wish more people would follow this. It is so important. ASL is a beautiful language and the deaf culture is so important.