This paper describes an evaluation of software developed with the aim of enabling hearing‐impaired children to explore and experience the use and effects of language. The software allows interactive graphics to be discussed and controlled by means of a simple‘natural’ language interface, thereby allowing the user to hold a written conversation with the computer. It is argued that by making written language interactive in this way, prelingually deaf children should be able to use, in the written medium, language learning strategies similar to those normally used by hearing children in the spoken medium.
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