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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453580503321

Titolo

Multilingual aspects of signed language communication and disorder / / edited by David Quinto-Pozos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol ; ; Buffalo : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-78309-132-0

1-78309-130-4

1-78309-131-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Collana

Communication Disorders Across Languages

Communication disorders across languages

Altri autori (Persone)

Quinto-PozosDavid

Disciplina

419

Soggetti

Sign language

Multilingual communication

Communicative disorders

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Considering communication disorders and differences in the signed language modality / David Quinto-Pozos -- Profiling SLI in deaf children who are sign language users / Rosalind Herman, Katherine Rowley, Chloë Marshall, Kathryn Mason, Joanna Atkinson, Bencie Woll and Gary Morgan -- A case-study approach to investigating developmental signed language disorders / David Quinto-Pozos, Jenny L. Singleton, Peter C. Hauser and Susan L. Levine --  The acquisition of sign language by deaf children with autism spectrum disorder / Aaron Shield and Richard P. Meier -- Mapping out guidelines for the development and use of sign language assessments: some critical issues, comments and suggestions / Wolfgang Mann and Tobias Haug -- A review of stuttering in signed languages / Geoffrey Whitebread -- Sign dysarthria: a speech disorder in signed language / Martha E. Tyrone -- The influence of dementia on language in a signing population /  Patricia Spanjer, Mariëlle Fieret and Anne Baker -- KODAs: a special form of bilingualism / Anne E. Baker and Beppie Van



den Bogaerde -- Language development in ASL-English bimodal bilinguals / Deborah Chen Pichler, James Lee and Diane Lillo-Martin.

Sommario/riassunto

Inquiry into signed languages has added to what is known about structural variation and language, language learning, and cognitive processing of language. However, comparatively little research has focused on communication disorders in signed language users. For some deaf children, atypicality is viewed as a phase that they will outgrow, and this results in late identification of linguistic or cognitive deficits that might have been addressed earlier. This volume takes a step towards describing different types of atypicality in language communicated in the signed modality such as linguistic impairment caused by deficits in visual processing, difficulties with motor movements, and neurological decline. Chapters within the book also consider communication differences in hearing children acquiring signed and spoken languages.