Multilingual Aspects of Signed Language Communication and Disorder / / ed. by David Quinto-Pozos.

Inquiry into signed languages has added to what is known about structural variation and language, language learning, and cognitive processing of language. However, comparatively little research has focused on communication disorders in signed language users. For some deaf children, atypicality is vi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Communication Disorders Across Languages
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. Considering Communication Disorders and Differences in the Signed Language Modality
  • Part 1: Developmental Language Disorders in the Signed Modality
  • 2. Profiling SLI in Deaf Children who are Sign Language Users
  • 3. A Case-study Approach to Investigating Developmental Signed Language Disorders
  • 4. The Acquisition of Sign Language by Deaf Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • 5. Mapping Out Guidelines for the Development and Use of Sign Language Assessments: Some Critical Issues, Comments and Suggestions
  • Part 2: Fluency Disorders, Neurogenics and Acquired Communication Disorders
  • 6. A Review of Stuttering in Signed Languages
  • 7. Sign Dysarthria: A Speech Disorder in Signed Language
  • 8. The Influence of Dementia on Language in a Signing Population
  • Part 3: Hearing Children from Signing Households
  • 9. KODAs: A Special Form of Bilingualism
  • 10. Language Development in ASL-English Bimodal Bilinguals
  • Index