What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: The Risk of Language Deprivation by Impairing Sign Language Development in Deaf Children

Overview of attention for article published in Maternal and Child Health Journal, February 2017

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For comparison: Hearing adults average a seventh to eighth grade reading level. Language deprivation syndrome is real. https://t.co/qmKN0n8PYg https://t.co/JYj4oguShK https://t.co/YjzqcGwZCS https://t.co/EuYtDtbGyv

https://t.co/LVWLluzLwi this article describes the effects of language deprivation, which is usually the cause for mislabeling and misdiagnosis.

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