Deafness in infancy can affect non-verbal communication

Psychologists at the University of Sheffield have found that deafness in infancy affects the development of communication skills in children at an early age, including non-verbal behaviors such as pointing.

Researchers found that deaf babies born to hearing families tended to be less likely to engage in communicative behaviors that predict language development compared to their normally hearing peers.

They examined infants' use of types of communication known to positively predict language development: reading and gesturing, finger pointing, communicative vocalization, and the use of words..

The results, published in the journal Pediatrics, show that access to sound is important not only for learning spoken language through imitation, but also for non-verbal communication..

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