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Stein, Miriam – Academic Therapy, 1982
Finger spelling is a technique which helps children in first and second grade and remedial classes learn to spell short-vowel words, sound by sound, using their fingers as aids. (SW)
Descriptors: Finger Spelling, Learning Disabilities, Phonetics, Primary Education

Vernon, McCay; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1980
The authors describe the results from a study using sign language and the manual alphabet to improve spelling skills of learning disabled second graders. (SBH)
Descriptors: Finger Spelling, Manual Communication, Primary Education, Reading Difficulties

McKnight, Jan C. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1979
The manual alphabet was used as an adjunct to a linguistic reading system to achieve the following goals with primary grade learning disabled children: (1) ensure attention, (2) reinforce the learning of phonemes, (3) guide the student if he had difficulties, (4) introduce prefixes and suffixes, and (5) provide the child with an independent…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Finger Spelling, Learning Disabilities, Manual Communication

Andrews, Jean F. – Exceptional Children, 1988
The reciprocal teaching procedure, which involves interactive dialogue and teacher modeling, was used to teach prereading skills (finger spelling, book reading, story retelling, and word recognition) to 23 prelingually deaf kindergarten and first-grade students. Pre-post test analyses showed that gains were made in letter, word, and story…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Deafness, Finger Spelling, Interaction