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Babbini, Barbara E.; Quigley, Stephen P. – 1970
Communication skills, language abilities, and educational achievement of 163 subjects from six residential schools for deaf students were studied. Subjects were tested yearly from 1963 to 1967 on speechreading, fingerspelling, speech intelligibility, reading achievement, arithmetic achievement, and written language. Both males and females and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication Skills, Exceptional Child Research, Finger Spelling
Stewart, David A.; And Others – 1989
The paper addresses problems teachers of the severely hearing impaired have in being bimodal (speech plus signs) English role models as well as in using American Sign Language. The project described in this paper centers around inservice training and in-class demonstrations of the use of a modified form of Signed English to provide a visual…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Communication Skills, Deafness, Demonstration Programs
Quigley, Stephen P. – 1969
Two studies were made of the Rochester Method of combining fingerspelling with speech and of its effects on development of language and communication in profoundly, prelingually deaf children. A survey tested school performances of 200 subjects from six residential schools for the deaf, three of which used the Rochester Method and three which used…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication Skills, Deafness, Exceptional Child Research
Lawrence, Constance D. – 2001
This paper reviews the research on use of American Sign Language in elementary classes that do not include children with hearing impairment and also reports on the use of the manual sign language alphabet in a primary class learning the phonetic sounds of the alphabet. The research reported is overwhelmingly positive in support of using sign…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Communication Skills
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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
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Samson-Fang, Lisa; Simons-McCandless, Marsha; Shelton, Clough – Infants and Young Children, 2000
This article discusses the incidence of infant hearing impairments, auditory screening tests, and available intervention choices for infants with severe to profound congenital hearing loss, including methods for communication and cochlear implantation. American Sign language, manually coded English, fingerspelling, total communication, and…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Auditory Evaluation, Cochlear Implants, Communication Skills
Padden, Carol A. – 1990
Deaf children come from all races, classes, and backgrounds, but as a group they have a hard time learning to read and write. The more hearing a child has, the better the child performs on tests of reading ability. Parents who can communicate well with their deaf children help them to perform well at school, but beyond "good"…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Children, Communication Skills, Deafness
Battison, Robbin – 1978
This book is written primarily for those studying linguistic topics in the area of sign language, but also can be useful to sign language teachers who want to understand more about American Sign Language (ASL). Pen-and-ink illustrations allow the reader with no knowledge of sign language to follow the discussion. The hypothesis examined in this…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Deafness, Finger Spelling
WITHROW, FRANK B. – 1966
THE ILLINOIS COMMUNICATION SCALE WAS DEVELOPED ON 16 MM COLOR FILM TO ASSESS THE RECEPTIVE COMMUNICATION ABILITIES OF DEAF CHILDREN BETWEEN 6 AND 14 YEARS. FORMS WERE CONSTRUCTED TO MEASURE (1) AUDITORY RECEPTION, (2) LIPREADING AND LISTENING, (3) LIPREADING ONLY, (4) FINGERSPELLING, AND (5) LANGUAGE OF SIGNS. EACH FORM HAD 5 SUBPARTS (1)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Auditory Evaluation, Children, Communication Skills
Maloney, Patricia; Weisgerber, Robert – 1977
One of a series of seven modules developed to improve the knowledge and skills of vocational educators who are or will become involved in teaching handicapped students in regular education settings, this module, concerned with communication impaired students (those who are deaf or hard of hearing and those who have speech impairments), is designed…
Descriptors: Agencies, Communication Skills, Deafness, Educational Resources
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