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ASL in New Jersey Schools

An article in the New Jersey newspaper, “The Record,” spotlights the prominence of American Sign Language (ASL) in the state's schools, after a 2015 bill allowed high schools to categorize it as a world language. Students are required to take five credits in order to graduate.

Sign Language Exposure May Impact 5-Month-Olds

NTID researcher and Assistant Professor Rain Bosworth and alumnus Adam Stone studied early-language knowledge in young infants and children by recording their gaze patterns as they watched a signer. The goal was to learn, just from gaze patterns alone, whether the child was from a family that used spoken language or signed language at home.

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Researchers Examine Brain-Sign Language Link

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) now wanted to know which brain regions are actually involved in the processing of sign language across different studies – and how large the overlap is with brain regions that hearing people use for spoken language processing.

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Adverse Childhood Communication Experiences May Be Associated with Increased Risk for Chronic Disease

The study notes that two forms of early life toxic stress that can potentially impact the health of individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing are language deprivation (insufficient access to direct child–caregiver communication during the critical period of language development) and communication neglect (ongoing or recurrent exclusion from indirect family communication and incidental learning).

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