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Willems, Sherry G.; And Others – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1982
Five severely language disordered children (20 months to 11 years old) and their parents participated in a 10-week sign training program. Group parent training sessions were conducted in four phases and individual training was provided on a weekly basis. All children showed substantial gains in use of productive language. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps, Parent Education
Peer reviewedLuterman, David; Chasin, Judith – Volta Review, 1981
The clinical records of 31 severely hearing impaired children (6 to 13 years old) who had attended a preschool nursery program were examined to determine which factors would predict aural/oral success. (Author)
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Education, Oral Communication Method, Predictor Variables
Download full textMusselman, Carol L.; And Others – 1985
A longitudinal study was conducted of 153 children (3-7 years old) with severe and profound hearing losses. Ss were tested three times over a 4-year period, including measures of linguistic and academic performance. In addition, information was collected on the background characteristics of Ss through parent interviews. Among findings were that,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Hearing Impairments, Language Acquisition
Wallick, Mollie Marcus; Boudreaux, Mary Verlander – 1979
Two teachers recount the 2 years they each spent teaching an autistic 9-year-old boy named Bernie. The first teacher reviews Bernie's life history, reporting the facts of his birth and followup examinations which revealed no medical abnormality. The teacher then describes her work with Bernie at the Therapeutic Nursery School. After an initial…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Autism, Behavior Change, Case Studies
Miller, Joan E. Heller – 1995
The mother of a deaf child recounts her family's experience from her daughter's infancy to her successful adjustment and high achievement in elementary school. Worries during the child's infancy and reaction to the diagnosis at 18 months are documented, as are the mourning process and choosing an educational approach, in this case mainstreaming.…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Communication Skills, Coping, Deafness
Stewart, David A.; And Others – 1990
This literature review examines selected variables that may influence teachers' ability to read books to preschool and elementary deaf children in total communication programs. The paper explores the role of signs in reading stories and factors influencing the signability of stories, including reading rate, length of sentences, length of text used…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Classroom Techniques, Deafness, Difficulty Level
Heiling, Kerstin – 1995
This study examined whether the level of academic achievement changed when deaf pupils in Sweden were introduced to sign communication at the preschool or kindergarten level. The study compared performance of 40 deaf students, attending a school for the deaf, on a comprehensive testing program (covering Swedish language and mathematical and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Bilingual Education, Congenital Impairments
