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II. Read the following excerpt from Hall et al. (2018) and answer the questions below.
Language deprivation occurs due to a chronic lack of full access to a natural language during the critical period of
language acquisition (when there is ans elevated neurological sensitivity for language development), approximately the
first five years of a child's life (Mayberry & Lock, 2003; Newport, 1990). Language deprivation during the critical period
appears to have pema anent consequ uences for long-term neurological develo lopment (Leybaert & D'Hondt, 2003).
Neurological development can be altcred to the extent that a deaf child "may be unable to develop language skills
sufficient to support fluent communication or serve as a basis for further learning" (Lederberg et al. 2013).
Exposure to a fully accessible language has an independent influence e on brain developmer ent separate from only the
auditory experience of hearing loss. Indeed, recent neuroimaging studics indicate the presenc ce of adult neurostructural
differences in deaf people based on timing and quality of language access in early childhood (Mayberry ct al., 2011;
Penicaud et al., 2013; Skotara et al., 2012).
Hall et al. (2018). Language Deprivation Syndrome: A Possible Neurodevelopmental Disorder with Sociocultural Origins
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