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2026 Poster Session B
B43 - Parent Language Input in Deaf and Hearing Families with Autistic Children
Research on language development in autism has rarely included Deaf children, despite evidence that modality and parental hearing status shape the input autistic children receive
2026 Poster Session B
B43 - Parent Language Input in Deaf and Hearing Families with Autistic Children
Mentor: Aaron Shield, Ph.D.
Background
Research on language development in autism has rarely included Deaf children, despite evidence that modality and parental hearing status shape the input autistic children receive
Prior work suggests that Deaf parents are particularly adept at gaining and maintaining their children's visual attention, which may scaffold lagnuage in unique ways
Objective: To characterize the modality, quantity, complexity, and functions of Deaf and hearing parent language input to their young autistic children during play-based interactions