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- Title
The development of early numeracy in deaf and hard of hearing children acquiring spoken language.
- Authors
Shusterman, Anna; Peretz‐Lange, Rebecca; Berkowitz, Talia; Carrigan, Emily
- Abstract
Most deaf and hard‐of‐hearing (DHH) children are born to hearing parents and steered toward spoken rather than signed language, introducing a delay in language access. This study investigated the effects of this delay on number acquisition. DHH children (N = 44, meanage = 58 months, 21F, >50% White) and typically‐hearing (TH) children (N = 79, meanage = 49 months, 51F, >50% White) were assessed on number and language in 2011–13. DHH children showed similar trajectories to TH children but delayed timing; a binary logistic regression showed that the odds of being a cardinal‐principle (CP) knower were 17 times higher for TH children than DHH children, controlling for age (d =.69). Language fully mediated the association between deaf/hearing group and number knowledge, suggesting that language access sets the pace for number acquisition.
- Subjects
NUMERACY; HEARING disorders in children; DEAF children; LANGUAGE acquisition; LANGUAGE delay
- Publication
Child Development, 2022, Vol 93, Issue 5, pe468
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.13793