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Bishop, D. V. M. – Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1983
A total of 79 profoundly deaf 8- to 12-year-old children were tested for comprehension of spoken, written, and signed (Paget-Gorman Sign System, PGSS) English grammatical contrasts. It is concluded that the PGSS provides a communication channel that does not hinder language acquisition, but does not overcome the grammatical problems of deaf…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Deafness
Peer reviewedBishop, D. V. M. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1982
Nine children suffering from Landau-Kleffner (L-K) syndrome and 25 children with developmental expressive disorders were tested for comprehension of English grammatical structures in spoken, written, and signed language modalities. L-K children demonstrated comprehension problems in all three language modalities and tended to treat language as…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Deafness
