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Johnson, Robert C. – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1989
This article summarizes a paper by Robert E. Johnson et al., "Unlocking the Curriculum: Principles for Achieving Access in Deaf Education." The paper examines the failure of total communication practices to educate deaf children and recommends that deaf children learn American Sign Language first and learn English as a second language. (JDD)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Wilcox, Sherman; Corwin, Joanne – Journal of Childhood Communication Disorders, 1990
This paper presents a cultural model of deafness, describing the experiences of a deaf child as enculturation into a deaf world. The implications of this view on social, cognitive, and linguistic development are explored through description of BoMee, an adopted Korean deaf child being raised in a multilingual, multicultural environment.…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Case Studies, Child Development, Cognitive Development
