The acquisition of reading vocabulary is one of the major challenges for deaf children in
bilingual education programs. Deaf children have to acquire a written lexicon that can …

Deaf bilinguals for whom American Sign Language (ASL) is the first language and English is
the second language judged the semantic relatedness of word pairs in English. Critically, a …

CUMULATING EVIDENCE suggests that the establishment of high-quality phonological
representations is the cognitive precursor that facilitates the acquisition of language …

Only a minority of profoundly deaf children read at age-level. We contend this reflects
cognitive and linguistic impediments from lack of exposure to a natural language in early …

Bimodal bilinguals, fluent in a signed and a spoken language, exhibit a unique form of
bilingualism because their two languages access distinct sensory-motor systems for …

A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its
contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language …

Findings from recent studies suggest that spoken-language bilinguals engage nonlinguistic
inhibitory control mechanisms to resolve cross-linguistic competition during auditory word …

This paper provides an overview of the research into deaf children's bilingualism and
bilingual education through a synthesis of studies published over the last 15 years. This …

In an implicit phonological priming paradigm, deaf bimodal bilinguals made semantic
relatedness decisions for pairs of English words. Half of the semantically unrelated pairs had …

Background and aims Children with good phonological awareness (PA) are often good
word readers. Here, we asked whether Swedish deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children …