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Amy R. Lederberg; Susan R. Easterbrooks; Stacey L. Tucci – Volta Review, 2022
One avenue for improving reading outcomes is to ensure children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) enter school with the foundational skills needed to learn to read. Our research team developed an early literacy curriculum specifically for DHH children. Teachers use Foundations for Literacy (FFL) in a one-hour literacy block for the school…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Children, Reading Comprehension
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Hutchinson, Kathleen – Volta Review, 1990
This auditory training program used an analytic distinctive feature approach to attempt to improve consonant recognition in single syllable words through listening and speechreading practice. Two hundred exercises addressed 3 auditory features: voicing, nasality, and sibilancy. The Phoneme Identification Test showed no statistical change in 26…
Descriptors: Adults, Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), Evaluation Methods
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Warner-Czyz, Andrea D.; Davis, Barbara L.; Morrison, Helen M. – Volta Review, 2005
The availability of cochlear implants in younger children has provided the opportunity to evaluate the relative impact of the production system, or the sounds young children can say, and the auditory system, or the sounds children can hear, on early vocal communication. Limited access to the acoustic properties of speech results in differences in…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Assistive Technology, Language Acquisition, Surgery