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Only when the child is seriously behind is a completely accessible language – a sign language – introduced, and that is far too late for protecting cognitive health. The medical profession, along with others, needs to offer parents better advice and better supports so that neither the children...
Unit4Unit4 LanguageLearningLanguageLearning TextA HowDoWeAcquire Language? DonnaJoNapoli LearningObjectives ReadingSkills CriticalThinking •Communicative Communicative Competence Intercultural Competence •ReadingSkills •CommunicativeCompetence •Summarizethemainideaofeachparagraph •Identifytopicsentencesandkeyword...
Sign Language poetry is especially valued for its presentation of strong visual images. Here, we explore the highly visual signs that British Sign Language and American Sign Language poets create as part of the 'classifier system' of their languages. Signed languages, as they create visually-...
thing for their children, many educate themselves about sign language and use it at home [45], seeing the advantages even when the professionals do not always see them. They often come to the independent conclusion that shared reading activities with their deaf children in a sign language are ...