Abstract
The videotape records of 20 young deaf children of hearing parents were examined for hand preference during the children’s production of signs and non-sign actions. When the study began, the children ranged in age from 2 to 5 years. The children were videotaped over a period of several months. Analyses of the videotape records revealed that the large majority of the children showed a distinct preference for their right hands in their signing. This right-hand preference for signing was much stronger than the children’s preference for their right hands in their production of non-sign actions. Moreover, the children’s right-hand preference for signing was evident in their first videotaped session and con-tinued throughout subsequent sessions. Signing hand preference was not significantly related to how long the children had been signing. These results are interpreted as reflecting a fundamental hem-ispheric asymmetry for language or complex motor processes.
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