A diverse panel of experts convened in Bad Ischl, Austria, in June of 2012 for the purpose of
coming to consensus on essential principles that guide family-centered early intervention …

This document is a supplement to the year 2007 position statement of the Joint Committee
on Infant Hearing and provides comprehensive guidelines for establishing strong early …

This document is a supplement to the recommendations in the year 2007 position statement
of the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing (JCIH) 1 and provides comprehensive guidelines …

Purpose Many deaf children have limited access to language, spoken or signed, during
early childhood–which has damaging effects on many aspects of development. There has …

Sign language interpreters, service providers and educators will be familiar with American
texts on the sign language interpreting profession, which make excellent reading and …

For many deaf and hard-of-hearing students, access to the general education curriculum is
provided, in part, by using the services of an educational interpreter. Even with a highly …

Natural sign languages of deaf communities are acquired on the same time scale as that of
spoken languages if children have access to fluent signers providing input from birth. Infants …

The multilingual turn is increasingly endorsed and promoted by such political forces as the
Council of Europe. The CEFR Companion Volume with New Descriptors (Council of Europe …

We obtained data on the writing of 110 deaf or hard-of-hearing students attending public
schools who completed the spontaneous writing portion of the Test of Written Language …

Four experiments investigated classroom learning by deaf college students receiving
lectures from instructors signing for themselves or using interpreters. Deaf students' prior …