Cochlear implants (CI) are the most successful intervention for ameliorating hearing loss in
severely or profoundly deaf children. Despite this, educational performance in children with …

Natural languages come in two different modalities. The impact of modality on the
grammatical structure and linguistic theory has been discussed at great length in the last 20 …

Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration
opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human …

This study determined whether the long-range outcome of first-language acquisition, when
the learning begins after early childhood, is similar to that of second-language acquisition …

The importance of early exposure to language is gaining widespread recognition as a result
of accumulating data from studies that investigate language development in deaf individuals …

The ability to generate visual mental images, to maintain them, and to rotate them was
studied in deaf signers of American Sign Language (ASL), hearing signers who have deaf …

Native Spanish early and late acquirers of English as well as native Vietnamese early and
child acquirers of English made grammaticality judgments of sentences in their second …

Over many years Jacques Mehler has provided us all with a wealth of surprising and
complex results on both nature and nurture in language acquisition. He has shown that …

ERPs were recorded from deaf and hearing native signers and from hearing subjects who
acquired ASL late or not at all as they viewed ASL signs that formed sentences. The results …

Parents of small deaf children need guidance on constructing home and school
environments that affect normal language acquisition. They often turn to physicians and …