The signing of deaf children with autism : lexical phonology and perspective-taking in the visual-spatial modality

This dissertation represents the first systematic study of the sign language of deaf children with autism. The signing of such children is of particular interest because of the unique ways that some of the known impairments of autism are likely to interact with sign language. In particular, the visu...

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Main Author: Shield, Aaron Michael
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2010
Subjects:
ASL
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1048