User talk:Easmith5

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Hi Emily! I am testing out the Talk pages!--AmyTai (talk) 21:35, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Adrienne's Peer Review
I noticed that you use capital "D" deaf instead of lowercase "d" deaf in your article and I think, if there is an article explaining the difference between Deaf and deaf, to link to that because I'm sure a hearing person would be curious about the difference in Deaf and deaf.

Grammar edit: "Contrasting this, other studies have found that sign language exposure does, in fact, facilitate the development of spoken language. Deaf children of Deaf parents who had exposure to sign language from birth outperformed their Deaf peers who were born to hearing parents in measures of speech intelligibility following cochlear implantation[2]. These findings demonstrate the advantageous role that sign language and early linguistic exposure, in general, plays in the development of spoken language."

In your Role of environment portion, you should elaborate more on why the language exposure has to be from a native signer. What if it was from a parent/caretaker that was learning sign and not as proficient? What kind of effect does that have on the child? Does that child still perform better or worse than a child that had a cochlear implant and was exposed to speech?

Grammar edit for clarification: Surrounding Deaf children with fluent signing and Deaf adults provide language modeling for young children and supports their language foundation from birth.

Speech and oral communication method section: Elaborate more on how literature is mixed on the success of deaf children acquiring spoken language. I think you could combine these two sentences: "A cochlear implant is an electronic device that is surgically implanted into the cochlea, the inner part of the ear which converts sound to neural signals. A cochlear implant bypasses damage to the hair cells within the cochlear, which are the receiving points for hearing that send the electrical signals through the auditory nerve to the brain, resulting in sound." Starting both paragraphs in that section with "Literature is mixed..." is a little redundant This section does seem to focus more on hearing alternatives rather than speech and oral communication and the second paragraph seems very similar to what I assume was the lead paragraph in the beginning. It's important to mention the cochlear implant/hearing aid side of things but I think the paragraph would benefit more if you talked more about the statistics behind success/failure of speech therapy with the given options for them to hear and communicate orally.

Great article though! It definitely needed a lot of work and you're doing a great job adding to it! Adrisheh (talk) 02:35, 20 March 2018 (UTC)