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Download full textKelly, Ronald R.; Mousley, Keith – 1999
This study compared the ability of college students with deafness and typical college students to transfer and apply their math computation and problem-solving skills to similar problems presented under different conditions. Thirty-seven students with deafness and 12 hearing students were given 30 math problems to solve that were presented under…
Descriptors: College Students, Deafness, Higher Education, Mathematical Applications
Peer reviewedSiedlecki, Theodore, Jr.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1990
Examination of the effect of a manual interference task on deaf and hearing college students' written free recall revealed that the task had a small adverse effect on deaf students' recall. Deaf students' reading levels were very strongly related to their level of word recall. (61 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Attention Control, College Students, Deafness, Higher Education
Peer reviewedReynolds, H. N. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1986
Analysis of deaf college students' (N=100) performance on the Degrees of Reading Power test (which assesses reading comprehension with use of a modified cloze procedure) revealed that postlingually deaf students scored higher than prelingually deaf students. Scores correlated with degree of hearing loss for prelingually deaf students and…
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Congenital Impairments
Peer reviewedToscano, Rose Marie; McKee, Barbara; Lepoutre, Dominique – American Annals of the Deaf, 2002
A study identified social, educational, and demographic characteristics of 30 postsecondary students who demonstrated strong reading and writing skills. Factors included were parental involvement in early education and educational decisions, extensive family communication, early exposure to and intensive experiences with reading and writing, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Deafness, Early Childhood Education, Family Environment
Written Language Modification of Preprofessionals Based on the Language Features of Deaf Recipients.
Schloss, Patrick J.; And Others – Teaching English to Deaf and Second-Language Students, 1989
Suggests educators may need to modify printed communication to accommodate the reading levels of hearing impaired learners. An investigation found that elementary education majors with limited experience with deaf individuals did not modify their written communication. (CB) (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Literacy Education)
Descriptors: Deafness, Education Majors, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedLoMaglio, Larry J. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1991
This study, involving 41 hearing foreign students, sought to determine the suitability of using the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) to determine the English reading skills of deaf international college applicants. Results indicated that a TOEFL score between 400 and 500 correlated with a reading grade level of less than 8.0.…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, Deafness, English (Second Language)
