Assessing Sign Language Development
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Background Deaf education has undergone significant changes over the past one hundred years: none more major than the swing away from using sign languages at the end of the 19th century to the reverse of that trend today. Sign languages are increasingly being used in bilingual deaf education programmes in Europe and the USA (Kyle 1987, Strong 1988, Quigley & Paul 1987, Johnson, Liddell and Erting 1989).
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