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Peer reviewedSchiavetti, Nicholas; Whitehead, Robert L.; Whitehead, Brenda; Metz, Dale Evan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1998
A study of 10 typical women investigated the effect of fingerspelling task length on temporal characteristics and perceived naturalness of speech produced during simultaneous communication. Speech produced during simultaneous communication was rated as less natural and demonstrated increased interword interval, diphthong, work, and sentence…
Descriptors: Adults, Finger Spelling, Hearing Impairments, Sign Language
Download full textAkamatsu, C. Tane; Stewart, David A. – 1989
Intended to raise researchers' and teachers' awareness of fingerspelling as an important part of signed communication, a study examined its use with deaf children in the classroom. Five trained teachers of the deaf, participating in a demonstration total communication project in a public school in the Midwest, were videotaped in their own…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Finger Spelling
Peer reviewedMaestas y Moores, Julia – Sign Language Studies, 1980
Reports data and observations from videotapes showing interaction in everyday activities between deaf parents and both hearing and non-hearing infants. Discusses the several modes of communication used and the strategies employed to increase two-way communication. (PMJ)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Deafness, Finger Spelling
Peer reviewedWoodward, James; Allen, Thomas – Sign Language Studies, 1987
A survey indicated that out of 1,888 teachers of hearing-impaired students, 140 use American Sign Language (ASL) in their classrooms. Further investigation reduced this number to 25 who actually use ASL and 6 who probably do. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Communication Skills, Deafness, Finger Spelling
Peer reviewedDesselle, Debra D.; Pearlmutter, Lynn – Social Work in Education, 1997
Examines the effect that hearing parents' communication methods have on the self-esteem of their deaf children. Results indicate that adolescents whose parents used total communication (speech, finger spelling, and sign language) had higher self-esteem scores than adolescents whose parents used speech only. Makes recommendations for school social…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
Peer reviewedHyde, 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
