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Direct linkMarcia L. Walsh-Aziz; Brenda Schick; Amy Lederberg – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
Studies have shown the benefits of fingerspelling on literacy skills in school-age deaf and hard-of-hearing students. This study is an observation of 20 first- and second-grade classrooms. The classroom observations were coded for fingerspelling event frequency, type, length, and whether it was chained to print. The observations showed that…
Descriptors: Finger Spelling, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities
Tapio, Elina – Deafness & Education International, 2019
This paper attends to languaging in the context of visually oriented communities of sign language users through the concept of "chaining." I define chaining as the patterned, routine ways of interlinking different linguistic and multimodal elements. The goal of this paper is to discuss the concepts of chaining, languaging and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
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
