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Documenting Syntactically and Semantically Incomplete Bimodal Input to Hearing-Impaired Subjects.
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Luetke-Stahlman, Barbara – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
The study evaluated characteristics of instructional bimodal communication in classrooms for the hearing impaired using Signing Exact English or Signed English. Findings indicated some teachers accurately and proficiently encoded semantic information in their instruction. A requirement of 80% or better voice-to-sign ratio ability is suggested for…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments
Metalinguistic Abilities of Young Hearing-Impaired Children: Performance on a Judgment of Synonomy Task.
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Borman, Deborah L.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
Metalinguistic abilities of 20 hearing-impaired children, aged 4-10, were assessed by asking them to judge synonymy of sentence pairs presented in Signed English, Pidgin Sign English, and American Sign Language. None of the children had developed metalinguistic abilities in any of the sign language systems. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Elementary Education, Hearing Impairments, Language Acquisition