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Chapter Nine - Deaf Gain - Coggle Diagram
Chapter Nine - Deaf Gain
Chelsee Patterson 10.24.21
Baby Sign
Enhanced language
Emergent - literacy learning
Cognition
Gesture selectively predicts later vocabulary skill
Parent - Child Mother Goose Program
The Multilinguistic Project
Background History
Joseph Garcia - baby-sign resources
Advertisements created for hearing infants / parents
Human language originated as gesture
"Naturalness"
Modality-Advantage
Gesture - forms that express meaning but lack syntax and other systematic linguistic structures
Express earlier age than with speech
"Make signs" at 6 months old; spoken develops 12-18 months
Manual babbling / hand babbling
"Bimodal Period"
Bimodal Bilingualism / Cognition
Common in Deaf Community
Use of 2 languages written / signed (sometimes spoken) modalities
Nonverbal cognitive or problem-solving abilities
Perceptual reasoning or attentional control
Visual-spacial doman / Spatial memory
Mental imagery and facial processing
LIS students showed significantly greater visual discrimination and recognition of spatial relations than students who were not learning LIS
Metalinguistic Awareness / Enhanced Literacy
Heightened awareness of the structure and functions of language
Bilinguals have greater processing demands
Improvements in reading, enhanced vocabulary, concept development, math skills