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Language acquisition by deaf children

Index Language acquisition by deaf children

Language acquisition by deaf children parallels the development of any children acquiring spoken language as long as there is full access to language from birth. [1]

27 relations: American Sign Language, Auditory-verbal therapy, Baby talk, Bilingual education, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Classifier (linguistics), Cochlear implant, Code, Cued speech, Deaf education, Fingerspelling, Flag semaphore, Hearing aid, Joint attention, Language acquisition, Language deprivation in deaf and hard of hearing children, Manually coded English, Modality (semiotics), Morpheme, Morse code, National Association of the Deaf (United States), Phonetics, Phonology, Pointing, Prosody (linguistics), Sign language, Signing Exact English.

American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.

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Auditory-verbal therapy

Auditory-verbal therapy is a method for teaching deaf children to listen and speak using their residual hearing in addition to the constant use of amplification devices such as hearing aids, FM devices, and cochlear implants.

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Baby talk

Baby talk is a type of speech associated with an older person speaking to a child.

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Bilingual education

Bilingual education involves teaching academic content in two languages, in a native and secondary language with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model.Bilingual education refers to the utilization of two languages as means of instruction for students and considered part of or the entire school curriculum.

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Charles-Michel de l'Épée

The Abbé Charles-Michel de l'Épée (24 November 1712, Versailles - 23 December 1789, Paris) was a philanthropic educator of 18th-century France who has become known as the "Father of the Deaf".

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Classifier (linguistics)

A classifier (abbreviated or), sometimes called a measure word or counter word, is a word or affix that is used to accompany nouns and can be considered to "classify" a noun depending on the type of its referent.

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Cochlear implant

A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss in both ears.

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Code

In communications and information processing, code is a system of rules to convert information—such as a letter, word, sound, image, or gesture—into another form or representation, sometimes shortened or secret, for communication through a communication channel or storage in a storage medium.

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Cued speech

Cued Speech is a visual system of communication used with and among deaf or hard-of-hearing people.

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Deaf education

Deaf education is the education of students with any degree of hearing loss or deafness which addresses their differences and individual needs.

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Fingerspelling

Fingerspelling (or dactylology) is the representation of the letters of a writing system, and sometimes numeral systems, using only the hands.

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Flag semaphore

Flag semaphore (from the Greek σῆμα, sema, meaning sign and φέρω, phero, meaning to bear; altogether the sign-bearer) is the telegraphy system conveying information at a distance by means of visual signals with hand-held flags, rods, disks, paddles, or occasionally bare or gloved hands.

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Hearing aid

A hearing aid is a device designed to improve hearing by making sound audible to a person with hearing loss.

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Joint attention

Joint attention or shared attention is the shared focus of two individuals on an object.

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Language acquisition

Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.

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Language deprivation in deaf and hard of hearing children

Language deprivation in deaf and hard of hearing children occurs when a child does not receive language exposure during their critical period.

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Manually coded English

MCE or speaking and signing at the same time has been labeled many terms--including Total Communication, Simultaneous Communication (SimCom), Signed English, Manually-Coded English, Sign Supported Speech, and Sign Supported English, none of which specify the degree to which the user is attempting to sign specific English vocabulary or correct grammar.

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Modality (semiotics)

In semiotics, a modality is a particular way in which information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text, or genre.

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Morpheme

A morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language.

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Morse code

Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment.

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National Association of the Deaf (United States)

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is an organization for the promotion of the rights of deaf people in the United States.

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Phonetics

Phonetics (pronounced) is the branch of linguistics that studies the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign.

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Phonology

Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.

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Pointing

Pointing is a gesture specifying a direction from a person's body, usually indicating a location, person, event, thing or idea.

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Prosody (linguistics)

In linguistics, prosody is concerned with those elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but are properties of syllables and larger units of speech.

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Sign language

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use manual communication to convey meaning.

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Signing Exact English

Signing Exact English (SEE-II, sometimes Signed Exact English) is a system of manual communication that strives to be an exact representation of English vocabulary and grammar.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition_by_deaf_children

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