The Impact of Language Deprivation on the Overall Development of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
For decades psychologists, medical professionals, and researchers have known that there is a critical period for language acquisition in humans. That critical period is approximately the first 5 years of a child’s life when there is an elevated neurological sensitivity for language development (Hall et al, 2017; Gulati, S. 2014). Language deprivation during the critical […]