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Second Verse, Same as the First: On the Use of Signing Systems in Modern Interventions for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in the USA
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Scott, Jessica A.; Henner, Jonathan – Deafness & Education International, 2021
Signing systems that attempted to represent spoken language via manual signs -- some invented, and some borrowed from natural sign languages -- have historically been used in classrooms with deaf children. However, despite decades of research and use of these systems in the classroom, there is little evidence supporting their educational…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, American Sign Language, Teaching Methods
The Role of Visual Perceptual Abilities in the Acquisition and Comprehension of Sign Language.
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Siple, Patricia; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
In order to investigate the role of visual perceptual abilities in the acquisition and comprehension of sign language, four tests of perceptual ability were administered to 120 entering hearing-impaired students and 23 new hearing staff members at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. (Author)
Descriptors: Ability, Comprehension, Hearing Impairments, Higher Education
The Effects of Mode and Language in Total Communication.
Stewart, David A. – A.C.E.H.I. Journal, 1987
The study of effects of mode (manual only, manual plus oral, and manual plus oral plus aural) and language (Signed English or American Sign Language) on the comprehension of deaf students (mean age 16 years) found no significant treatment effect for mode of presentation; there was an interaction between languages and mode. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Comprehension, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
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
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