Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development : Essays in Honour of Bencie Woll.

Intro -- Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Impact -- References -- 1. Deafness, cognition and language: Developmental perspectives -- Aims of this book -- Changes in how deaf children are learning language -- Who are native signers? -- Oral versus signed language exposure -- What does deafness/modality mean for related cognitive skills and brain plasticity? -- Deaf children's changing experience of education -- What is in the book? -- References -- 2. Early communication in deaf and hearing children -- Joint attention and early language -- Joint attention in deaf children -- The impact of cochlear implants on early communication -- Interventions to support the development of joint attention -- References -- 3. Overlap in turn-taking in signed mother-child dyadic and triadic interactions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Turn-taking -- Methodology -- Results -- Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 4. The assessment of signed languages -- Introduction -- The first published assessments of sign language acquisition -- Methodological issues in web-based sign language assessment for deaf students -- Dynamic assessment -- Assessment of signers who have intellectual disabilities -- Assessment of adult learners of a sign language -- Overall conclusions -- References -- 5. Atypical sign language development -- 0. Setting the scene -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sign Language acquisition in Landau-Kleffner Syndrome (LKS) -- 3. Sign language acquisition in Williams syndrome -- 4. Sign language acquisition in Autism -- 5. Sign language acquisition in Specific Language Impairment (SLI) -- 6. Intervention studies with deaf children who have impairments in their acquisition of sign language -- 7. Conclusions -- References.

6. Age of acquisition effects in language development -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Language domains and critical period effects -- 2.2 Modality effects and age effects -- 3. Late L1 acquisition of sign languages -- 4. Deaf children with cochlear implants -- 5. Sign language acquisition in an atypical case: What Christopher can tell us -- The evidence: Christopher's signed and spoken languages -- 6. Conclusions and implications -- References -- 7. Links between language and cognitive development of deaf children -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is the impact of deafness on language development? -- 3. Language for cognitive development: Theory of Mind and Executive Functions -- 4. General conclusions -- References -- 8. Perception and production of language in the visual modality: Implications for sign language development -- Overview -- Seeing signs during development -- Visual perception of sign language -- Production of a visual language -- Summary -- References -- 9. Neurobiological insights from the study of deafness and sign language -- Introduction -- Neural plasticity -- The role of the "auditory" cortex in deaf individuals -- Modality dependent and independent language networks -- Visual speech in deaf and hearing individuals -- Neural bases of audiovisual speech processing in hearing individuals -- Neural bases for speechreading in deaf people -- Speech actions in sign language and in seen speech: Neural correlates -- Sign languages as a window into modality-independent language processing -- What are the neural consequences of impoverished access to early language? -- Working memory for language in deaf and hearing individuals -- Linguistic representations and working memory development -- Modality-specific and modality-independent working memory mechanisms -- Conclusion -- References.

10. Educating bilingual and multilingual deaf children in the 21st century -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The evolution of sign bilingual education in three continents -- 2.1 UK -- 2.2 Australia -- 2.3 Asia -- 3. Sign bilingual education in practice - Issues and challenges -- 4. Emerging developments in deaf education -- 4.1 Co-enrollment as a new form of sign bilingual education in mainstream education -- 4.2 Increasing diversity in deaf children's linguistic repertoire -- 4.3 Perception of language interaction as a natural outcome of bilingual development -- 5. Sign bilingual education in the future -- 5.1 Educational environment -- Professional training in sign bilingual education -- 5.2 Involvement of deaf ToDs -- 5.3 Sign language and parents -- 5.4 The nature of sign-supported speech in sign bilingual programmes -- 5.5 International movement towards promoting the linguistic status of sign language and its role in deaf children's education -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Past, present and future? -- References -- Index.

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