Sign language ability in young deaf signers predicts comprehension of written sentences in English.

We investigated the robust correlation between American Sign Language (ASL) and English reading ability in 51 young deaf signers ages 7;3 to 19;0. Signers were divided into 'skilled' and 'less-skilled' signer groups based on their performance on three measures of ASL. We next ass...

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Main Authors: Kathy N Andrew, Jennifer Hoshooley, Marc F Joanisse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0089994&type=printable
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