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Baby Sign Language - Network Program Catalogue and Review of Evidence
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Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network Program Catalogue and Review of Evidence: Training hearing infants to use sign language
The Highly Qualified Personnel Committee presents the first Network Contract Research Review (CRR). A competition was held last Spring when students and their supervisors submitted Letters of Intent to conduct reviews of evidence on topics suggested by Network Researchers. Cyne Johnston, a Ph.D. student in Population Health at the University of Ottawa, and an Audiologist trained at Dalhousie University, won the award to review evidence to support claims that teaching sign language to prelingual infants advances their language, cognitive, and social development.
The HQPC created Review Guidelines and Reporting Forms that students use to develop their reviews. Cyne’s work resulted in the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network Program Catalogue and Review of Evidence: Training hearing infants to use sign language. Andrée Durieux-Smith, Cyne’s academic supervisor, and Kathleen Bloom, collaborated with Cyne. The authors thank Cara Cressman, Julie Hachey, and Orsolya Lorincz for diligently formatting the document. The HQPC Contract Research Review Committee, Pierre Cormier, Michael Masson, and Monique Sénéchal, and Don Jamieson, monitored and advised the Review.
The concept and production of the Program Catalogue is one of the Network’s unique contributions to parents and other stakeholders in early language development. The Review of Evidence is also a Network contribution to the concept of short-term but systematic review protocols for quasi-experimental evidence. The HQPC, on behalf of the Network, thanks Cyne Johnston for her careful and congenial trail blazing. Cyne will be presenting this and other related work at conferences, for publication, and in popular parenting media.
The HQPC will announce a new Contract Research Review competition in 2004. We encourage students and their supervisors to consider this unique and valuable Network opportunity.
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Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network Program Catalogue and Review of Evidence: Training hearing infants to use sign language
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