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Hamilton, Harley – Sign Language Studies, 2017
This article investigates the sequential recall of manual alphabet letters by signing deaf adolescents under two presentation conditions: fingerspelling and the listing and ordering technique (LOT) of American Sign Language. Fingerspelling presents each letter in a manner similar to the spelling of spoken words: A letter is produced and then is no…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Recall (Psychology), American Sign Language, Alphabets
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Allen, Thomas E. – Sign Language Studies, 2015
This article reports on a correlational study of language and home factors and their role in fostering the development of alphabetic knowledge among a national sample of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old deaf children. A structural equation model was constructed and tested in an examination of the combined impacts of student age, finger-spelling ability, and…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Finger Spelling, Family Environment, Interpersonal Communication
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Hanson, Vicki, L.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Coding of printed letters in a task of consonant recall was examined in relation to the level of success of prelingually and profoundly deaf young children. Results indicated that the success of good readers appears to be related to their ability to establish and make use of linguistically recoded representations of the language. (Author/CI)
Descriptors: Alphabets, American Sign Language, Consonants, Deafness