While still adjusting to work from home life, we are off to work with the project. Instead of running next door to the other office to ask a question to my advisor, we email back and forth now a days. This week I worked on creating a new variable. We created a group that has hearing parents, a basal age delay of at least 24 months, and uses all or most ASL within the household. I am looking forward to analyzing the tables to see if there is any items that the group scored similarly to our other two groups (those who have deaf parents with a delay and those without a delay). In addition, I created some box plots to look at what age the kids mastered different ASL skills from the checklist.

In the following week I hope to identify if there are any patterns in checklist items that are most difficult for all three groups I have been investigating. I am still working through readings of literature I have found on variation in acquiring a sign language. As I read I am making notes and summaries for use as background information in a brief to inform the communities that this affects.