Advances in the Sign-Language Development of Deaf Children (Perspectives on Deafness)

by Marc Marschark (Editor), PatriciaElizabethSpencer (Editor), Brenda Schick (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2005

  $143.76

  Research on the characteristics of sign languages not only improve services to deaf children, but also contribute to our understanding of language development. This volume provides cogent summaries of what is known about early gestural development, visual communication and the processes of semantic, syntactic and pragmatic development in sign.