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The Psychoeducational Characteristics of School-Aged Students in Colorado with Educationally Significant Hearing Losses.
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Yoshinaga-Itano, Christine; Downey, Doris M. – Volta Review, 1996
This study of 461 Colorado students (ages 7-18) with deafness or partial hearing investigated the students' psychoeducational development by age and hearing loss, including syntactic comprehension and production, reading comprehension, social maturity, speech intelligibility, and math calculation skills. Traditional standardized measures of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Mathematics Skills
Factors Predictive of the Development of Literacy in Profoundly Hearing-Impaired Adolescents.
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Geers, Ann; Moog, Jean – Volta Review, 1989
A study of reading, writing, spoken and signed language, speech perception and production, and cognition of 100 profoundly hearing-impaired students in oral and mainstream high school programs suggests that hearing-impaired students have much higher potential for literacy than previously reported, and that the primary predictor is English-language…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries
A Public School Cued Speech Program for Children with Hearing Loss and Special Learning Needs
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LeBlanc, Barbara M. – Volta Review, 2004
The difficulties encountered by students with hearing loss and special learning needs are often attributed exclusively to hearing loss, particularly when there are no other obvious physical or sensory handicaps. A Louisiana public school system has addressed this issue for the past 9 years and has included both regular and special education…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Early Intervention, Cued Speech, Hearing Impairments