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Peer reviewedJones, Philip A. – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Examines the relation of Pidgin Sign English to American Sign Language and the written English of deaf persons. (AM)
Descriptors: Body Language, Deafness, Manual Communication, Nonverbal Communication
Peer reviewedHanson, Vicki L.; Lichtenstein, Edward H. – Cognitive Psychology, 1990
The primary language hypothesis of short-term memory coding was challenged by an experiment with eight normally hearing college students and a review of the literature about deaf subjects. Whether or not deaf signers recode printed words into sign depends on a variety of task and subject factors. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Deafness, Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education
Peer reviewedKopchick, George A., Jr. – Mental Retardation, 1975
Eleven deaf retarded institutionalized adults demonstrated significant language improvement at the conclusion of a 6 month total communication program in which child care aids were trained to use sign language and to reward Ss' communication attempts. (CL)
Descriptors: Adults, Deafness, Exceptional Child Education, Hearing Impairments
Hillegeist, Eleanor; Epstein, Kenneth – 1989
The study examined the relationship between language and mathematics with 11 classes of deaf students taking Algebra 1 or Algebra 2 at the Gallaudet University School of Preparatory Studies. Specifically, the study attempted to predict the difficulty of a variety of relatively simple algebra problems based on the abstractness of the math and the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Algebra, Deafness, Definitions
Woodward, James; De Santis, Susan – 1975
Recent research in sociolinguistics has demonstrated the need for looking at language in a dynamic framework, that is, for not imposing the traditional synchronic-diachronic dichotomy on linguistic studies. Support for the dynamic framework has been given from various oral languages. This paper attempts to test variation theory with historically…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Diachronic Linguistics, Finger Spelling
Download full textLake County Public Library, Merrillville, IN. – 1976
The Lake County (Indiana) Public Library provides a guide to materials for the deaf. The fiction list is annotated. Unannotated lists include materials on the deaf child, books on manual communication, resource books (law, education, directories, guides), poetry, lipreading materials, general information on deafness and the deaf, biographies,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
Williams, Judy – 1968
In this case study of a young deaf child, his mother relates his progress in language acquisition through the use of signs, finger spelling, speechreading, and auditory training. Other members of the child's family are deaf and the child received training at the Gallaudet preschool from the age of 30 months. The author believes that there are…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Deafness, Early Childhood Education
Miles, Dorothy S.; Fant, Louie J., Jr. – 1976
Offered are guidelines to the development of theatre for, by, and about deaf persons. Various terms used for sign-language theatre and deaf theatre are defined and discussed in an introductory section, and the use of sign language as a theatrical medium is explained. The production of theatre is covered by sections on the history of deaf theatre,…
Descriptors: Acting, Audiences, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
Peer reviewedCaccamise, Frank; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
Six research areas in manual/simultaneous communication (M/SC) for hearing-impaired individuals are discussed. (Author)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Manual Communication
Peer reviewedCaccamise, Frank; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
The need for selection, standardization, and development of signs and manual communication systems for use in the educational setting is discussed. (Author)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum Development, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
Peer reviewedMcIntire, Marina – Sign Language Studies, 1977
Examination of American Sign Language--produced by a deaf child acquiring the language from deaf parents, and videotaped at age 13, 15, 18, and 21 months--shows conformity to many of the phonological rules operative for all languages. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Deafness, Handicapped Children
Peer reviewedMacKay-Soroka, Sherri; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Examined were message-receiving skills of schoolchildren in relation to their mother's messages. Participants were hearing children four, six, and eight years of age and deaf children six to 10 years of age. Findings revealed that mothers achieved high levels of communicative success with their six- and eight-year-old hearing children but…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Peer reviewedKluwin, Thomas N. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1981
Differences in teachers' ability to use separate signs for English grammatical endings and the use of characteristics of American Sign Language were found. Deaf teachers deleted far fewer signs and used more elements of ASL while the inexperienced hearing teachers did the reverse. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedShuman, Malcom L. – Language Sciences, 1980
A description of the sign language used in a Mexican village shows its parallels with other sign languages, its similarity to the folk gestural system of Mexico and its distinguishing aspects. Examples illustrate its syntax, grammar and lexicon. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Body Language, Deafness, Field Studies, Folk Culture
Peer reviewedHawes, M. Dixie; Danhauer, Jeffrey L. – Sign Language Studies, 1980
An investigation of the confusion resulting from reliance on visual perceptual teachers in the identification of dactylemes (handshapes) in the American Manual Alphabet (MA) is reported. A hierarchy of errors varying with subjects' degree of expertness in the MA is established. This can help manual communication teachers develop techniques for…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Deafness
