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Direct linkMarcia L. Walsh-Aziz; Brenda Schick; Amy Lederberg – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
Studies have shown the benefits of fingerspelling on literacy skills in school-age deaf and hard-of-hearing students. This study is an observation of 20 first- and second-grade classrooms. The classroom observations were coded for fingerspelling event frequency, type, length, and whether it was chained to print. The observations showed that…
Descriptors: Finger Spelling, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities
Kindelin, Heidy – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1988
A teacher devised an activity based on the game show "Wheel of Fortune" to spark her deaf students' interest in fingerspelling. "Fingerspelling Fortune" spells out puzzles using cards with handshapes. As the cards are turned and the students try to guess the phrases, they increase proficiency in recognizing handshapes. (VW)
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Finger Spelling
