Multilingual Aspects of Signed Language Communication and Disorder

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2014
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-78309-129-4 (ISBN)

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This book brings together work on communication disorders of child and adult users of signed languages. The chapters investigate linguistic impairments caused by deficits in visual processing and motor movements, as well as neurological decline. It also contains suggestions about how signed languages might guard against communication disorder.

Inquiry into signed languages has added to what is known about structural variation and language, language learning, and cognitive processing of language. However, comparatively little research has focused on communication disorders in signed language users. For some deaf children, atypicality is viewed as a phase that they will outgrow, and this results in late identification of linguistic or cognitive deficits that might have been addressed earlier. This volume takes a step towards describing different types of atypicality in language communicated in the signed modality such as linguistic impairment caused by deficits in visual processing, difficulties with motor movements, and neurological decline. Chapters within the book also consider communication differences in hearing children acquiring signed and spoken languages.

David Quinto-Pozos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, USA. His research focuses on signed language, communication disorder, language acquisition and the interaction between language and gesture in the signed modality.

David Quinto-Pozos: Preface

Laurence Leonard: Foreword

1. David Quinto-Pozos: Introduction: Considering Communication Disorders and Differences in the Signed Language Modality

Part 1: Developmental Language Disorders in the Signed Modality

2. Rosalind Herman, Katherine Rowley, Chloë Marshall, Kathryn Mason, Joanna Atkinson, Bencie Woll & Gary Morgan: Profiling SLI in Deaf Children who are Sign Language Users

3. David Quinto-Pozos, Jenny Singleton, Peter Hauser, & Susan Levine: A Case-Study Approach to Investigating Developmental Signed Language Disorders

4. Aaron Shield & Richard P. Meier: The Acquisition of Sign Language by Deaf Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

5. Wolfgang Mann & Tobias Haug: Mapping Out Guidelines for the Development and Use of Sign Language Assessments – some Critical Issues, Comments, and Suggestions

Part 2: Fluency Disorders, Neurogenics and Acquired Communication Disorders

6. Geoffrey Whitebread: A Review of Stuttering in Signed Languages

7. Martha Tyrone: Sign Dysarthria: A Speech Disorder in Signed Language

8. Patricia Spanjer, Mariëlle Fieret & Anne Baker: The Influence of Dementia on Language in a Signing Population

Part 3: Hearing Children from Signing Households

9. Anne E. Baker and Beppie van den Bogaerde: KODAs: A Special Form of Bilingualism

10. Deborah Chen Pichler, James Lee and Diane Lillo-Martin: Language Development in ASL-English Bimodal Bilinguals

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.2.2014
Reihe/Serie	Communication Disorders Across Languages
Verlagsort	Bristol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	434 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Logopädie
ISBN-10	1-78309-129-0 / 1783091290
ISBN-13	978-1-78309-129-4 / 9781783091294
Zustand	Neuware