Abstract The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requests
“Nothing about us without us.” User-centered methodological research is the way to comply …

Most deaf children have hearing parents who do not know a sign language at birth and are
at risk of limited language input during early childhood. Studying these children as they …

Deaf People and Society is an authoritative text that emphasizes the complexities of being
D/deaf, DeafBlind, Deaf-Disabled, or hard of hearing, drawing on perspectives from …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate co-activation of English words
during recognition of American Sign Language (ASL) signs. Deaf and hearing signers …

Theories of reading posit that decisions about “where” and “when” to move the eyes are
driven by visual and linguistic factors, extracted from the perceptual span and word …

This Handbook, with 45 chapters written by the world's leading scholars in second language
acquisition (SLA) and language testing, dives into the important interface between SLA and …

Recent advances in sign language (SL) technologies, along with demand for SL education,
have led to increased interest in developing tools that enable automatic assessment of …

The lexical quality hypothesis proposes that the quality of phonological, orthographic, and
semantic representations impacts reading comprehension. In Study 1, we evaluated the …

Many children with profound hearing loss have received cochlear implants (CI) to help
restore some sense of hearing. There is, however, limited research on long-term …

Past work investigating spatial cognition suggests better mental rotation abilities for those
who are fluent in a signed language. However, no prior work has assessed whether fluency …