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Peer reviewedReich, Peter A.; Bick, Margaret – Sign Language Studies, 1977
The fingerspelling component of thirteen samples of Visible English (the system of communication in which all speech is supposed to be simultaneoously fingerspelled) used by teachers in classrooms in two schools for the deaf were analyzed linguistically. Only 56 percent of what should have been fingerspelled was present and legible. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Deafness, English, English Instruction, Finger Spelling
Peer reviewedReich, Peter A.; Bick, Margaret – American Annals of the Deaf, 1976
Three reasons given by advocates of fingerspelled English or visible English (VE) that their method of communication is superior to total communication (TC) were investigated with an observational study of 11 teachers in two VE schools and 15 teachers in two TC schools. (Author/IM)
Descriptors: Deafness, Disabilities, Exceptional Child Research, Finger Spelling
