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Figueras, Berta; Edwards, Lindsey; Langdon, Dawn – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2008
The relationship between language and executive function (EF) and their development in children have been the focus of recent debate and are of theoretical and clinical importance. Exploration of these functions in children with a peripheral hearing loss has the potential to be informative from both perspectives. This study compared the EF and…
Descriptors: Deafness, Children, Cognitive Processes, Language Skills
Kindelin, Heidy – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1988
A teacher devised an activity based on the game show "Wheel of Fortune" to spark her deaf students' interest in fingerspelling. "Fingerspelling Fortune" spells out puzzles using cards with handshapes. As the cards are turned and the students try to guess the phrases, they increase proficiency in recognizing handshapes. (VW)
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Finger Spelling
Lee, James – 1997
This guide to teaching speechreading skills to deaf elementary grade children offers an experiential, synthetic (rather than analytic) approach to acquisition of receptive spoken language through realistic and meaningful activities. Introductory material considers the importance of practice in speech reading, ways to individualize the activities…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Elementary Education, Interpersonal Communication
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Kenyon, Patricia; Daly, Kimberly – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1991
A study evaluated the effectiveness of video instruction in teaching the meanings and uses of idioms to 20 deaf adolescents. Students improved their knowledge and use of idioms more when exposed to the video/discussion approach than to the lecture/discussion approach. (DB)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Deafness, Group Discussion, Idioms