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South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Programs for the Handicapped. – 1987
The reference manual of preferred sign language signs represents an effort by a special South Carolina task force to develop a single, systematized approach for signing in instructional settings throughout the state. The manual, which contains illustrations and instructions for formation of approximately 2,500 signs, was developed by establishing…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Finger Spelling
Peer reviewedNewell, 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
Vernon, McCay – A.C.E.H.I. Journal, 1987
A review of problems with using such manual communication systems as cued speech, fingerspelling, Signed or Manual English, American Sign Language, and Pidgin Sign provides a rationale for using a combination of American Sign Language and Pidgin Sign and a few markers from Signed English for a Total Communication system. (CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Communication Skills, Cued Speech, Deafness
Peer reviewedPenna, Karen L.; Caccamise, Frank – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
The goal of the Manual/Simultaneous Communication Department (M/SCD) at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is to assist deaf students in developing communication skills. (Author)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, 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 reviewedStewart, David A.; Akamatsu, C. Tane – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1988
Examines the social rejection and acceptance of American Sign Language (ASL) since its introduction in schools for the deaf in 1817. Concludes that the evolutionary nature of ASL binds its use to the deaf community. (Author/FMW)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, 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
Department of Education and Science, London (England). – 1968
The results of study in England and Wales to determine the place of fingerspelling and signing in deaf education are reported. The scope and procedure of the inquiry, its context, the meaning of terms, the linguistic quality methods of communication, variable factors likely to affect the attainments of children with impaired hearing, and present…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Education, Exceptional Child Education
