This week was off to a really great and exciting start. In our Monday morning meeting we planned ahead for this week. We decided to narrow down the comparisons between Deaf children with hearing parents and those with Deaf parents. We then split them by delayed or not delayed. I condensed tables with varying items and the scores for each item. I separated tables by ages, and then I narrowed down the items to include about three items of most difficulty for three different groups in ages 3, 4, and 5. The items that had most difficulty for children had to have 0 in the mastery score and the majority (over fifty percent) in the “not yet emerging” box. After that I chose the most difficult for the children with hearing parents and children with Deaf parents. I chose another item that was most difficult for children with Deaf parents, but this item was also not difficult for those with hearing parents. The last item I included was one that was challenging to children with hearing parents but not to those with Deaf parents.

Our game plan was then to create stacked bar graphs to look at the items side-by-side. However, SPSS was giving a bit of a difficult time in trying to get both stacked and grouped bar graphs. Eventually my wonderful Gallaudet Advisor, Dr. Allen, figured out a way to create them. It was a bit of a process, so we are waiting until our meeting Monday to move further on this. In the meantime, I read a wonderful piece on the linguistics of ASL and variation in the language. I am looking forward to a wonderful work week ahead filled with lots and lots of bar graphs and visuals!