Deaf Children’s Early Literacy at Home
September 2005 - Ongoing(Contact: Dr Ruth Swanwick or Linda Watson - University of Birmingham)
Funded By: ESRC
This project aims to investigate the different ways in which families with young deaf children facilitate the development of early literacy skills. For some preschool deaf children the shared language of an early literacy events at home will be BSL and for others it will be spoken English. This project will investigate the features of early literacy events in these two different language situations and explore what advice on early literacy is given to families by visiting teachers of the deaf and the extent to which this meets the needs of families.
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This project last updated by Peter Edwards on 18th January 2006.