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Re: “Sign of the Times: Deaf Vermonters Seek Better Options for Services and Schooling”

I'd like to respond to the audiologist, Margaret Sicotte, quoted in the article as saying cochlear-implanted children "catch up" by age 5 in terms of language development. This statement is quite misleading. The FDA has approved implantation for children beginning at 12 months-- this means dead children who are not exposed to sign language essential receive no language exposure until after their first birthday. Delayed-exposure to language can have lifelong effects in several linguistics and cognitive domains. Our research lab has recently published a paper that demonstrates cochlear-implanted children with deaf signing parents outperform cochlear-implanted children with hearing parents on several standard measures of English pronunciation, vocabulary, morphology and syntax (Davidson et al 2013). This is because early access to language bolsters the learning of subsequent languages, and this maybe be indeed why the Durgin children are so successful. In no way does learning sign language hinder the development of a spoken language. It is far to risky to provide your child with no or limited access to language until the age of 12 months and then hope that the cochlear implant is successful. Chose bilingualism.

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Posted by vtcodajeff on 03/01/2015 at 10:56 PM

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