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The Role of Visual Perceptual Abilities in the Acquisition and Comprehension of Sign Language.
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Siple, Patricia; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
In order to investigate the role of visual perceptual abilities in the acquisition and comprehension of sign language, four tests of perceptual ability were administered to 120 entering hearing-impaired students and 23 new hearing staff members at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. (Author)
Descriptors: Ability, Comprehension, Hearing Impairments, Higher Education
A Study of the Ability of Day-Class Deaf Adolescents to Comprehend Factual Information Using Four Communication Modalities
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Newell, William – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
Twenty-eight deaf adolescents enrolled in a day-class program for the hearing impaired were administered a battery of four short factual stories using oral, manual, simultaneous, and interpreted modalities of communication. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comprehension, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
Conservation and Metaphor Acquisition in Hearing-Impaired Children: Some Relationships with Communication Mode, Hearing Acuity, Schooling, and Age.
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Rittenhouse, Robert K.; Kenyon, Patricia L. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1991
Conservation and metaphor acquisition were studied in 35 hearing-impaired children (ages 6-19) using either cued speech or oral-aural communication. Significant positive relationships were found between conservation and metaphor in both communication modes, age and metaphor, and age and conservation. Neither conservation nor metaphor was related…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Concept Formation
The Receptive Communication Abilities of Deaf Students under Oral, Manual, and Combined Methods.
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Hyde, M. B.; Power, D. J. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1992
The comprehension of 30 severely and profoundly deaf students (ages 10 to 17) was evaluated under 11 communication conditions involving individual and combined presentations of lipreading, listening, fingerspelling, and signed English. Severely deaf students scored higher than profoundly deaf students under all but one condition, and all students…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Communication Skills, Comprehension