We were discussing children’s language development in our revision session, and I said I’d look up the references for the case study of a hearing child brought up with deaf parents, expected to learn language through TV alone. The reference is Bard & Sachs, with several articles to look at: abstracts can be found here: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED150868 and here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/applied-psycholinguistics/article/language-learning-with-restricted-input-case-studies-of-two-hearing-children-of-deaf-parents/4F5BF799996DCD5977A94BC5F1233578.
A readable summary and discussion of this situation is available here: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1150&context=srhonors_theses — and it also makes a good model for the structure of a Language Investigation, which is our upcoming NEA in Year 2...
