Authors in this issue

Sign Language Studies 62 Authors inthis issue: Catherine A. Jackson is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her primary research interest is inspecial cases of first language acquisition. Her dissertation research focuses on the acquistion of grammar by children with focal brain damage. The article here confirms some of the clear separation found by Petitto between language and other forms of communicative behavior when the channel is gestural and visual. Madeline M. Maxwell, Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, University of Texas at Austin, is no stranger to readers of Sign Language Studies. Her article inthis issue, like others, is based in a longitudinal, fine-grained study of a child's whole acquisition process and looks at an often neglected area: the role of speech inrelation to other systems ina deaf child's total communicative development. Judith L. Mounty is Director of the program for deaf and hard of hearing children inthe Hingham, Massachusetts South Shore Educational Cooperative. Her Ed.D. degree was awarded by Boston University in 1986, and she has an M.Ed. degree in Hearing Impaired &Special Education from Temple University. Inthe current article she looks both at generative theory and actual production of children who communicate with a variety of partners. Spring 1989 Sign Language Studies 62 Edward T. Hall, as former Director of the Human Relations Area File, co-author with George L.Trager of An Analysis ofCulture, and author ofThe Silent Language (1959, Doubleday), has extraordinary qualifications for reviewing a book on the culture and language of the Deaf community. Now residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he is much interested inthe interfaces between cultures, so important inAmerica's growing cultural diversity, and never more subtle than that between the Deaf and hearing. Barry A. Crouch is Associate Professor of History at Gallaudet University and author of several articles in The Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deaf People &Deafness (3vols. McGraw-Hill, 1987). Kathryn Harley is a communications consultant, editor, and writer for the Extension & Summer Session, University of New Brunswick, and was involved inthe program she reports on here as evaluator and report writer. Spring 1989 ...