On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Jean Johnson wrote:
>I've read a few studies regarding acquisition of ASL. Deaf children of
>Deaf parents were compared with hearing children of hearing parents to
>find out the stages of acquisition for various language patterns. From
>what I understand, Deaf babies do show a difference in ability to express
>their language at an earlier age. Most Deaf of Deaf babies show one
>sign utterances begin around the age of six months whereas hearing babies
>of hearing parents show a one word sutterance at the age of 12 months.
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Wow. Deaf babies are six months ahead of the hearing babies...that is
fascinating!
Thank you so much, Jean, for the great information -
Valerie ':-)
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