Abstract:

D/deaf children of Deaf parents reportedly begin learning finger-spelling as young as thirteen months old, but deaf children born to hearing, nonsigning parents lack natural access to the native (spoken) language of their families, often exhibiting later language development. Forty-four deaf adults participated in a fingerspelling test of decoding-encoding pseudowords. The participants offered self-reported demographic information, including age at initial American Sign Language (ASL) exposure and parent hearing status. Analysis of variance using post hoc grouping of participants revealed significantly higher scores on the fingerspelling test among participants with early ASL exposure (p = .000; ηp2 = 0.45), and those with two D/deaf parents (p = .002; ηp2 = 0.23). Development and refinement of a fingerspelling test to be used with both D/deaf and hearing, native, and developing signers should benefit professionals working with D/deaf and hearing children and their D/deaf or hearing parents.

摘要：

据报道，失聪父母的 D/失聪儿童在 13 个月大时就开始学习手指拼写，但天生听力、非手语父母的失聪儿童无法自然地接触到其家庭的母语（口语），通常表现出较晚的语言发展。44 名聋哑成年人参加了对伪字进行解码编码的手指拼写测试。参与者提供了自我报告的人口统计信息，包括最初接触美国手语 (ASL) 的年龄和父母的听力状况。对参与者进行事后分组的方差分析显示，早期 ASL 暴露的参与者（p = .000；ηp 2 = 0.45）和有两个 D/聋哑父母的参与者（p = .002；ηp 2 = 0.23)。开发和改进用于 D/聋和听力、本地和发展中的手语者的手指拼写测试应该有利于与 D/聋和听力儿童及其 D/聋或听力父母一起工作的专业人员。