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A Sociocultural Perspective on Young Deaf Children's Fingerspelling: An Ethnographic Study in a Signing Setting
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Roos, Carin – Deafness and Education International, 2014
This study, which is part of a larger longitudinal ethnographic study of young deaf children, reports on deaf children's use of fingerspelling. The children observed were early signers using Swedish Sign Language (SSL) in communication with teachers and peers. This study centres on the functions of fingerspelling in the children's everyday…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Longitudinal Studies, Ethnography
Young Deaf Children's Fingerspelling in Learning to Read and Write: An Ethnographic Study in a Signing Setting
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Roos, Carin – Deafness and Education International, 2013
This paper presents a study of children's use of fingerspelling. It is part of a larger longitudinal ethnographic study of deaf children, who were 3-6 years old when the study started. They are early signers using Swedish Sign Language in communication with teachers and peers. The aim of this paper is to examine the different functions which…
Descriptors: Young Children, Deafness, Ethnography, Longitudinal Studies