The benefits of sign language for deaf learners with language challenges
This article argues the importance of allowing deaf children to acquire sign language from an early age. It demonstrates firstly that the critical/sensitive period hypothesis for language acquisition can be applied to specific language aspects of spoken language as well as sign languages (i.e. phono...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Afrikaans |
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Stellenbosch University
2009-12-01
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| Series: | Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning |
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| Online Access: | http://perlinguam.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/28 |