To assist medical and hearing-science professionals in supporting parents of deaf children,
we have identified common questions that parents may have and provide evidence-based …

Natural sign languages of deaf communities are acquired on the same time scale as that of
spoken languages if children have access to fluent signers providing input from birth. Infants …

Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) children need to master at least one language (spoken or
signed) to reach their full potential. Providing access to a natural sign language supports this …

A long-standing belief is that sign language interferes with spoken language development in
deaf children, despite a chronic lack of evidence supporting this belief. This deserves …

BACKGROUND: Most children with hearing loss who receive cochlear implants (CI) learn
spoken language, and parents must choose early on whether to use sign language to …

Deaf children who are not provided with a sign language early in their development are at
risk of linguistic deprivation; they may never be fluent in any language, and they may have …

What does it mean to do Deaf Studies and who gets to define the field? What would a truly
deafled 1 Deaf Studies look like? What are the research practices of deaf scholars in Deaf …

Medical and educational interventions for children with hearing loss often adopt a single
approach of spoken language acquisition through the use of technology, such as cochlear …

The term homesign has been used to describe the signing of deaf individuals who have not
had sustained access to the linguistic resources of a named language. Early studies of child …

Bilingual bimodalism is a great benefit to deaf children at home and in schooling. Deaf
signing children perform better overall than non-signing deaf children, regardless of whether …