Early visual language skills affect the trajectory of literacy gains over a three-year period of time for preschool aged deaf children who experience signing in the home

• Thomas E. Allen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas E. Allen, Donna A. Morere

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thomas.allen@gallaudet.edu

  Affiliations Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, United States of America, PhD in Educational Neuroscience Program, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1545-8853

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• Donna A. Morere

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas E. Allen, Donna A. Morere

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, United States of America

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