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Research References & Further Reading         Recommended for all levels Garcia, Dr Joseph, Joseph Garcia’s Complete Guide to Baby Signing (Babysigners, London 2005) Baby signing general background Acredolo, Linda. and Goodwyn, Susan, Baby Signs (Vermillion, London, 2000) Daniels, Dr Marilyn, Dancing with Words: Signing for Hearing Children’s Literacy (Bergin & Garvey, Westport, Connecticut 2001) Smith, Cath, Signs Make Sense (Souvenir Press, London 1990) Ward, Dr Sally, Baby Talk (Arrow Books, London 2004) Accelerates speech in babies L.P. Acredolo & S.W. Goodwyn, ‘Furthering our understanding of what humans understand’ in Human Development, 40, pp. 25-31 (1997) S.W. Goodwyn & L.P. Acredolo, ‘Symbolic gesture versus word: Is there a modality advantage for onset of symbol use?’ in Child Development, 64, pp. 688-701 (1993) B. Moore, L.P. Acredolo & S.W. Goodwyn, ‘Symbolic gesturing and joint attention: Partners in facilitating verbal development’ Paper presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development (April 2001) A greater written and spoken vocabulary M. Daniels, ‘The effects of sign language on hearing children’s language development’ in Communication Education, 43, pp. 291-298 (October, 1994a) M. Daniels, ‘Seeing Language: The Effect Over Time of Sign Language on Vocabulary Development in Early Childhood Education’ in Child Study Journal, 26, pp. 193-208 (1996) L. Felzer, ‘A Multisensory Reading Program That Really Works’ in Teaching and Change, 5, pp. 169-183 (1998) J. Hafer, Signing for Reading Success. (Washington D.C.: Clerc Books, Gallaudet University Press, 1986) L. Koehler and L. Loyd, ‘Using Finger Spelling/Manual Signs to Facilitate Reading and Spelling’ Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (4 th Cardiff Wales, September 1986) R. Wilson, J. Teague, and M. Teague, ‘The Use of Signing and Fingerspelling to Improve Spelling Performance with Hearing Children’ in Reading Psychology, 4, pp. 267-273 (1985) A higher IQ L.P Acredolo & S.W Goodwyn, ‘The long-term impact of symbolic gesturing during infancy on IQ at age 8’ in Paper presented at the meetings of the International Society for Infant Studies (Brighton, UK, July 2000) S.W. Goodwyn, L.P. Acredolo & C. Brown, ‘Impact of Symbolic Gesturing on Early Language Development’ in Journal of Nonverbal Behaviour, 24, pp. 81-103 (2000) B. Moore, L.P. Acredolo, & S.W. Goodwyn, ‘Symbolic gesturing and joint attention: Partners in facilitating verbal development’ in Paper presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development (April 2001) Increased brain activity D. Bavelier, D. P. Corina and H.J. Neville, ‘Brain and Language: a Perspective from Sign Language’ in Neuron, Vol 21, pp. 275-278 (Cell Press, August 1998) W.H. Calvin and G.A. Ojemann,. Inside the Brain: Mapping the Cortex, Exploring the Neuron (New American Library, 1980). Baby signing in a baby’s development L.P. Acredolo and S.W. Goodwyn ‘Symbolic gesturing in normal infants’ in Child Development, 59, pp. 450-466 (1988) L.P. Acredolo and S.W. Goodwyn ‘The significance of symbolic gesturing for understanding language development’ in R. Vasta (Ed.), Annals of Child Development, 7, pp. 1-42. (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1990) L. Acredolo, S. Goodwyn, K. Horobin, and Y. Emmons, ‘The signs and sounds of early language development’ in L. Balter & C. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues pp. 116 – 139 (New York: Psychology Press, 1999) S. Goodwyn and L. Acredolo, ‘Encouraging symbolic gestures: Effects on the relationship between gesture and speech’ in J. Iverson & S. Goldin-Meadows (Eds.) The nature and functions of gesture in children’s communication, pp. 61-73. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998) P.L. Griffith, ‘Mode switching and mode-finding in a hearing child of deaf parents’ in Sign Language Studies, 48, pp. 195-222. (1985) Karmiloff-Smith, A ‘The extraordinary journey from foetus through infancy.’ In Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 36, pp 1,293-1,315 (1995) R. Wilbur and M. Jones, ‘Some aspects of the acquisition of American Sign Language and English by three hearing children of deaf parents’ in La Galy, Fox & Bruck (Eds), Papers from the Tenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (1974) Apraxia of Speech P.A. Square, ‘Treatment Approaches For Developmental Apraxia Of Speech’ in Clinical Communication Disorders, Sept; 4(3): 151-61 (1994) Autism Stephen M. Edelson, PhD Centre for the Study of Autism, Salem, Oregon Dr Edelson’s articles is available online at www.autism.org/sign.html Down Syndrome M.R. Hopmann, ‘The Use of Signs by Children with Downs Syndrome’ in Down Syndrome Today Vol 2, No. 2, pp. 22-3 (1993) C-LP. Donovan, ‘Teaching Sign Language’ in Disability Solutions Vol 2, Issue 5 (January/February 1998) J.F. Miller, A. Sedey, G. Miolo, M. Rosin, J. Murray-Branch ‘Vocabulary acquisition in young children with Down Syndrome: Speech and sign’ in Paper presented at the 9 th World Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency (Queensland, Australia, August 1992) E.D. Gibbs, A.S. Springer, S.C. Cooley & S. Aloisio ‘Early use of total communication: Patterns across eleven children with Down Syndrome’ in Paper presented at the meeting of the International Early Childhood Conference on Children with Special Needs (St. Louis, MO, November 1991) Reading Disabilities D. Blackburn, J. Vonvillian, and R. Ashby ‘Manual Communication as an Alternative Mode of Language Instruction for Children with Severe Reading Disabilities’ in Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 15, pp. 22,-31 (January 1984) J. Carney, G. Cioffi, and W. Raymond ‘Using Sign Language for Teaching Sight Words’ in Teaching Exceptional Children, pp. 214-217 (Spring 1985) M. Vernon, J. Coley, J. Hafer and J. Dubois ‘Using Sign Language to Remediate Severe Reading Problems’ in Journal of Learning Disabilities 13, pp. 215-218. (April 1980) L. Sensenig, B. Topf, and E. Mazeika ‘Sign Language Facilitation of Reading with Students Classified as Trainable Mentally Handicapped’ in Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded pp. 121-125. (June 989)