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A Study of the Ability of Day-Class Deaf Adolescents to Comprehend Factual Information Using Four Communication Modalities
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Newell, 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
Controversy within Sign Language.
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
The Receptive Communication Abilities of Deaf Students under Oral, Manual, and Combined Methods.
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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
The Education of Deaf Children: The Possible Place of Finger Spelling and Signing.
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