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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood with ASL Signers

In this special edition, the linguistically complete, natural language of American Sign Language (ASL) is modeled, through expert deaf signers Mary Lou Novitsky and Roger Vass. Families with young children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing have access to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood through American Sign Language.

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Research suggests that being bilingual is good for the brain.

"Growing up bilingual is just as natural as growing up monolingual," according to Janet Werker, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who studies language acquisition in bilingual babies.

Read this NPR article to learn more about it.

There is an increasing amount of studies indicating that early exposure of Deaf children to shared reading in American Sign Language is beneficial. To learn more, read this article in The Hearing Review.

The link below is to an abstract, "Language acquisition for deaf children: Reducing the harms of zero tolerance to the use of alternative approaches" which was co-written by Tom Humphries, Poorna Kushalnagar, Gaurav Mathur, Donna Jo Napoli, Carol Padden, Christian Rathmann and Scott R Smith. It's well worth reading.