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ASL as a Factor in Acquiring English
- Sign Language Studies
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 78, Spring 1993
- pp. 23-29
- 10.1353/sls.1993.0013
- Article
- Additional Information
The results of testing 14 hearing children who learned ASL as preschoolers show that these bimodal, bilingual youngsters achieve significantly higher scores than average on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, and suggest that knowing a sign language may have a positive influence on a hearing child’s acquisition of English.