Family Language Policy in American Sign Language and English Bilingual Families

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dc.contributor.advisorKidd, Julie
dc.contributor.authorKite, Bobbie Jo
dc.creatorKite, Bobbie Jo
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-22T01:17:13Z
dc.date.available2018-10-22T01:17:13Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis study aims to examine the ways in which eight hearing families of bimodal-bilingual deaf children utilize, revise, and reflect upon their family language policy. The bimodal-bilingual is the development and use of more than one language in more than one modality. The spoken and signed are the modes to which “bimodal” refers to in this study. The family language policy is a sociolinguistic approach in examining bi/multilingualism in families (King & Fogle, 2013). This study is motivated by two factors: (a) the unique role of family language policy in deaf children's language development and (b) the need to examine early childhood bimodal-bilingual development within specific ethnolinguistic and ethnocultural contexts. The findings indicate the connection to the Deaf community and Deaf individuals through the Deaf Mentors Project is a key to providing families with support to resist various forms of oppression from the medical community. The process of the early linguistic acquisition of ASL-English bimodal-bilingual development and its contribution to young children’s linguistic outcomes as a foundation for future academic engagement and lifelong success is supported through family language policy.
dc.format.extent269 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/11215
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCopyright 2017 Bobbie Jo Kite
dc.subjectEarly childhood education
dc.subjectAmerican Sign Language
dc.subjectBilingual education
dc.subjectDeaf
dc.subjectDeaf education
dc.subjectEarly intervention
dc.subjectFamily language policy
dc.titleFamily Language Policy in American Sign Language and English Bilingual Families
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineEducation
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelPh.D.

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