John Bonvillian

John D. Bonvillian was a psychologist and associate professor - emeritus in the Department of Psychology and Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was known for his contributions to the study of sign language, childhood development, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition. Much of his research worked with typically developing children, deaf children, or children with disabilities.

John D. Bonvillian
Born
John Doughty Bonvillian

(1948-09-04)September 4, 1948
Caldwell, Idaho, U.S.
DiedMay 8, 2018(2018-05-08) (aged 69)
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
Alma materStanford University

Education and early work

Bonvillian received a B.A. in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University in 1970. While an undergraduate there, he was introduced to the field of child development by Mary D. S. Ainsworth and to psycholinguistics by James E. Deese. He then attended Stanford University on a National Science Foundation doctoral fellowship, earning his Ph.D in 1974.[1] As a graduate student, he worked primarily with Keith E. Nelson as they conducted studies on child language acquisition in typically developing children and children with disabilities.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Some of this work was later reprinted in other publications.[13][14] During his time at Stanford, John met William C. Stokoe, a pioneering figure in sign language research. Subsequently, the two were to work together editing the journal, Sign Language Studies. In 1974, Bonvillian accepted an appointment as an assistant professor at Vassar College. In 1978, he was invited to join the faculty at the University of Virginia, where he was reunited as a colleague with his former professors, Ainsworth and Deese, who had previously accepted appointments at Virginia. He taught at UVA until his retirement in May 2015. He died on May 8, 2018 at the age of 69 from pancreatic cancer.[15][16][17][18]

Sign language acquisition

In 1979, Bonvillian commenced the first of two longitudinal studies of sign language acquisition in young children with deaf parents.[19][20][21][22][23][24] These studies (conducted primarily with Michael D. Orlansky and Raymond J. Folven) were to provide valuable information on the course of American Sign Language (ASL) acquisition.[25][26][27][28][29][30][31] Their research found that the patterns with which children developed proficiency in ASL was highly similar to the patterns with which children acquired spoken language skills. While the pattern of acquisition was similar across language modalities, many of the sign learning children attained different language milestones in ASL earlier than their hearing counterparts attained these same milestones in English. These studies also provided information on how young children learn to form ASL signs. More specifically, these data enabled Bonvillian (with Theodore Siedlecki) to develop an account of sign language phonological acquisition.[32][33][34][35][36][37][38] Bonvillian also conducted investigations into the use of manual signs to facilitate communication in minimally verbal or non-speaking children and adults.[39] In particular, he conducted a number of studies of sign language acquisition in lower-functioning children with autistic disorder.[40][41] In the 1990s, Bonvillian (with Brenda Seal) examined sign formation difficulties in children with autism.[42] This study made it clear that for manual signs to be used easily by children with autism, then the signs should consist of a single movement and be composed by a limited number of basic or unmarked hand shapes.[43][44]

Simplified Sign System research

In 1998, Bonvillian began work on developing a simplified, manual sign-communication system. The initial focus of this project was to develop a sign-communication system for non-speaking or minimally verbal individuals, such as children with autistic disorder, Down syndrome, or cerebral palsy. At the time of his death, Bonvillian's research team had developed a Simplified Sign System lexicon consisting of approximately 1850 easily formed, highly iconic signs or gestures. This increase in the size of sign vocabulary was undertaken to meet the needs of students and teachers who wanted to use Simplified Signs to facilitate the acquisition of foreign language vocabulary items. Research suggests that by performing highly iconic Simplified Signs with to-be-learned foreign language vocabulary items, students are able to internalize items into their memories more quickly and effectively.[45] The first 1000 signs of the Simplified Sign System were published on July 30, 2020 by Open Book Publishers in Cambridge, U.K.[46]

gollark: That's the way to learn it, I think, the official book.
gollark: I bet there's something for that on cargo.
gollark: Also, bitfields meaning those things where you condense a bunch of bool options into a multiple-bit thing, right?
gollark: Then maybe you're using the wrong types.
gollark: Nobody will ever know.

References
  1. Bonvillian, J. D. (1974). Word coding and recall in deaf and hearing students (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Stanford, CA: Department of Psychology, Stanford University.
  2. Nelson, K. E.; Carskaddon, G.; Bonvillian, J. D. (1973). "Syntax acquisition: Impact of experimental variation in adult verbal interaction with the child". Child Development. 44: 497-504. doi:10.2307/1128005.
  3. Bonvillian, J. D.; Charrow, V. R.; Nelson, K. E. (1973). "Psycholinguistic and educational implications of deafnes". Human Development. 16: 321-345. doi:10.1159/000271286.
  4. Nelson, K. E.; Bonvillian, J. D. (1973). "Concepts and words in the 18-month-old: Acquiring concept names under controlled conditions". Cognition. 2: 435-450. doi:10.1016/0010-0277(73)90003-6.
  5. Bonvillian, J. D.; Nelson, K. E.; Charrow, V. R. (1976). "Languages and language-related skills in deaf and hearing children". Sign Language Studies. 12: 211-250. doi:10.1353/sls.1976.0013.
  6. Bonvillian, J. D.; Nelson, K. E. (1976). "Sign language acquisition in a mute autistic boy". Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders. 41: 339-347. doi:10.1044/jshd.4103.339.
  7. Nelson, K. E.; Bonvillian, J. D. (1978). "Early language development: Conceptual growth and related processes between 2 and 4 ½ years of age". In Nelson, K. E. (ed.). Children's language, Volume 1. New York, NY: Gardner Press, John Wiley. p. 467-556.
  8. Bonvillian, J. D.; Nelson, K. E. (1978). "Development of sign language in autistic children and other language-handicapped individuals". In Siple, P. (ed.). Understanding language through sign language research. New York, NY: Academic Press. p. 187-212.
  9. Bonvillian, J. D.; Nelson, K. E.; Rhyne, J. M. (1981). "Sign language and autism". Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 11: 125-137. doi:10.1007/bf01531345.
  10. Bonvillian, J. D.; Nelson, K. E. (1982). "Exceptional cases of language acquisition". In Nelson, K. E. (ed.). Children's language, Volume 3. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. p. 322-391.
  11. Nelson, K. E.; Denninger, M.; Bonvillian, J. D.; Kaplan, B. J.; Baker, N. (1984). "Maternal input adjustments and non-adjustments as related to children's linguistic advances and to language acquisition theories". In Pellegrini, D. A.; Yawkey, T. D. (eds.). The development of oral and written language in social contexts. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation. p. 31-56.
  12. Nelson, K. E.; Baker, N. D.; Denninger, M.; Bonvillian, J. D.; Kaplan, B. J. (1985). "Cookie versus Do-it-again: Imitative-referential and personal-social-syntactic-initiating language styles in young children". Linguistics. 23: 433-454. doi:10.1515/ling.1985.23.3.433.
  13. Bonvillian, J. D.; Nelson, K. E. (1978). "Sign language acquisition in a mute autistic boy (reprint)". In Lahey, M. (ed.). Readings in childhood language disorders. New York, NY: John Wiley. p. 409-417.
  14. Bonvillian, J. D.; Nelson, K. E.; Charrow, V. R. (1980). "Languages and language-related skills in deaf and hearing children (reprint)". In Stokoe, W. C. (ed.). Sign and culture: A reader for students of American Sign Language. Silver Spring, MD: Linstok Press. p. 227-265.
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  16. "In Memoriam: John D. Bonvillian, Who Developed a Simplified Sign Language". UVAToday.
  17. "John Doughty Bonvillian". The Daily Progress.
  18. Kulkarni, N. (May 25, 2018). "Celebrating the life and legacy of Prof. John Bonvillian". The Cavalier Daily.
  19. Bonvillian, J. D.; Orlansky, M. D.; Novack, L. L. (1983). "Developmental milestones: Sign language acquisition and motor development". Child Development. 54: 1435-1445. doi:10.2307/1129806.
  20. Bonvillian, J. D.; Orlansky, M. D.; Novack, L. L.; Folven, R. J. (1983). "Early sign language acquisition and cognitive development". In Rogers, D. R.; Sloboda, J. A. (eds.). The acquisition of symbolic skills. New York, NY: Plenum Press. p. 207-214.
  21. Bonvillian, J. D.; Orlansky, M. D.; Novack, L. L. (1983). "Early sign language acquisition and its relationship to cognitive and motor development". In Kyle, J. G.; Woll, B. (eds.). Language in sign: An international perspective on sign language. London, U. K.: Croom Helm. p. 116-125.
  22. Bonvillian, J. D.; Orlansky, M. D.; Novack, L. L.; Folven, R. J.; Holley-Wilcox, P. (1985). "Language, cognitive, and cherological development: The first steps in sign language acquisition". In Stokoe, W. C.; Volterra, V. (eds.). SLR ’83: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Sign Language Research, Rome, June 22-26, 1983. Silver Spring, MD: Linstok Press & Istituto di Psicologia, CNR in Rome, Italy. p. 10-22.
  23. Novack, L. L.; Folven, R. J.; Orlansky, M. D.; Bonvillian, J. D.; Holley-Wilcox, P. (1988). "Language, cognitive, and cherological development in young children of deaf parents". In Magarotto, C. (ed.). Deafness today and tomorrow: Reality and Utopia: Proceedings of the IXth Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf. Rome, Italy: Ente Nazionale Sordomuti. p. 559-571.
  24. Bonvillian, J. D.; Folven, R. J. (1990). "The onset of signing in young children". In Edmondson, W.; Karlsson, F. (eds.). SLR ’87: Papers from the Fourth International Symposium on Sign Language Research, Lappeenranta, Finland, July 15-19, 1987. Hamburg, Germany: Signum Press. p. 183-189.
  25. Orlansky, M. D.; Bonvillian, J. D. (1984). "The role of iconicity in early sign language acquisition". Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders. 49: 287-292. doi:10.1044/jshd.4903.287.
  26. Folven, R. J.; Bonvillian, J. D.; Orlansky, M. D. (1984). "Communicative gestures and early sign language acquisition". First Language. 5: 129-143. doi:10.1177/014272378400501404.
  27. Orlansky, M. D.; Bonvillian, J. D. (1984). "Recent research on sign language acquisition: Implications for multihandicapped hearing-impaired children". The Journal of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association. 11: 72-87. doi:10.1044/jnsshla_11_72.
  28. Orlansky, M. D.; Bonvillian, J. D. (1985). "Iconicity and sign language: A reply to Lloyd, Loeding, and Doherty (1985)". Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders. 50: 407-408. doi:10.1044/jshd.5004.407.
  29. Orlansky, M. D.; Bonvillian, J. D. (1985). "Sign language acquisition: Language development in children of deaf parents and implications for other populations". Merrill-Palmer Quarterly. 31: 127-143.
  30. Orlansky, M. D.; Bonvillian, J. D. (1988). "Early sign language acquisition". In Smith, M. D.; Locke, J. L. (eds.). The emergent lexicon: The child’s development of a linguistic vocabulary. New York, NY: Academic Press. p. 263-292.
  31. Bonvillian, J. D.; Orlansky, M. D.; Folven, R. J. (1990). "Early sign language acquisition: Implications for theories of language acquisition". In Volterra, V.; Erting, C. J. (eds.). From gesture to language in hearing and deaf children. Springer Series in Language and Communication, 27. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. p. 219-232.
  32. Siedlecki, Jr., T. (1993). "Location, handshape and movement: Young children's acquisition of the formational aspects of American Sign Language". Sign Language Studies. 78: 31-52. doi:10.1353/sls.1993.0016.
  33. Siedlecki, Jr., T.; Bonvillian, J. D. (1993). "Phonological deletion revisited: Errors in young children's two-handed signs". Sign Language Studies. 80: 223-242. doi:10.1353/sls.1993.0000.
  34. Bonvillian, J. D.; Siedlecki, Jr., T. (1996). "Young children's acquisition of the location aspect of American Sign Language signs: Parental report findings". Journal of Communication Disorders. 29: 13-35. doi:10.1016/0021-9924(94)00015-8.
  35. Siedlecki, Jr., T.; Bonvillian, J. D. (1997). "Young children's acquisition of the handshape aspect of American Sign Language signs: Parental report findings". Applied Psycholinguistics. 18: 17-39. doi:10.1017/s0142716400009851.
  36. Siedlecki, Jr., T.; Bonvillian, J. D. (1998). "Homonymy in the lexicons of young children acquiring American Sign Language". Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 27: 47-68. doi:10.1023/A:1023222807136.
  37. Bonvillian, J. D.; Siedlecki, Jr., T. (1998). "Young children's acquisition of the movement aspect in American Sign Language: Parental report findings". Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 41: 588-602. doi:10.1044/jslhr.4103.588.
  38. Bonvillian, J. D.; Siedlecki, Jr., T. (2000). "Young children's acquisition of the formational aspects of American Sign Language: Parental report findings". Sign Language Studies. 1 (45–64). doi:10.1353/sls.2000.0002.
  39. Bonvillian, J. D.; Friedman, R. J. (1978). "Language development in another mode: The acquisition of signs by a brain-damaged adult". Sign Language Studies. 19: 111-120. doi:10.1353/sls.1978.0013.
  40. Bonvillian, J. D. (1984). "Sign language with an autistic child". In Heward, W. L.; Orlansky, M. D. (eds.). Exceptional children: An introductory survey of special education (2nd ed.). Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill. p. 174-175.
  41. Bonvillian, J. D.; Blackburn, D. W. (1991). "Manual communication and autism: Factors relating to sign language acquisition". In Siple, P.; Fischer, S. D. (eds.). Theoretical issues in sign language research, Volume 2. Psychology. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. p. 255-277.
  42. Seal, B. C.; Bonvillian, J. D. (1997). "Sign language and motor functioning in students with autistic disorder". Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 27: 437-466. doi:10.1023/a:1025809506097.
  43. Bonvillian, J. D. (2002). "Sign communication training and motor functioning in children with autistic disorder and in other populations". In Armstrong, D. F.; Karchmer, M. A.; Van Cleve, J. V. (eds.). The study of signed languages: Essays in honor of William C. Stokoe. Washington, D. C.: Gallaudet University Press. p. 190-212.
  44. Bonvillian, J. D. (2019). "Sign acquisition and development by hearing children with autism spectrum disorders". In Grove, N.; Launonen, K. (eds.). Manual sign acquisition in children with developmental disabilities. New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. p. 115-131.
  45. Bonvillian, J. D.; Kissane Lee, N.; Dooley, T. T.; Loncke, F. T. (2020). Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations. Volume 1: Principles, Background, and Application. Cambridge, U.K.: Open Book Publishers.
  46. Bonvillian, J. D.; Kissane Lee, N.; Dooley, T. T.; Loncke, F. T. (2020). Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations. Volume 2: Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids. Cambridge, U.K.: Open Book Publishers.


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