Professor Goldin-Meadow spends a lot of time on homesign-systems of signs typically developed by deaf children in hearing families who are not exposed to (and so never learn) a conventional sign language.

戈尔丁-梅多教授花了大量时间研究家庭手语，这种手语系统通常由听力正常的家庭中的失聪儿童开发，这些儿童没有接触过(因此也从没学习过)传统的手语。