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Lloyd, Lyle L.; And Others – 1987
A "working party" (a decision-making group similar to the quality circles concept) comprised of public elementary school personnel (administrator, regular and special education staff), and parents, university special education faculty and graduate students worked cooperatively to develop and implement a manual sign inservice training package to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Elementary Education, Inservice Education, Interpersonal Competence
Download full textKarchmer, Michael A.; And Others – 1978
The paper describes some of the major demographic differences between hearing impaired students with normal-hearing parents and those with hearing-impaired parents, based on Office of Demographic Studies data, and attempts to illustrate the complex interaction involved between these variables, academic achievement, and early parent-child…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, Demography
Jensema, Carl J.; Trybus, Raymond J. – 1978
The report presents the results of an Office of Demographic Studies study of the communication patterns of a national sample of 657 hearing impaired children. The extent to which various modes of communication (such as manual or oral) are used with hearing impaired children is examined, and the relationships between communication patterns and a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Manual Communication
McKee, Barbara G.; And Others – 1980
Approximately 290 deaf college freshmen participated in a study of the relationship between perceived and actual abilities in eight communication modes (including reading, writing, speech reading with and without sound, and reception of manual and simultaneous communication). Ss rated their abilities before and after a communication course. Actual…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Exceptional Child Research, Higher Education
Stokoe, William C., Ed. – 1980
This is a selection of papers that have appeared in the journal "Sign Language Studies" between 1972 and 1979. The aim is to provide the reader with some knowledge of the world as signers see it. The book is for academic decision-makers, teachers and parents of deaf students, as well as the intellectually curious. Following an introductory essay,…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Biculturalism, Deafness, Dialects
Stokoe, William C. – 1975
Linguistics retains from its antecedents, philology and the study of sacred writings, some of their apologetic and theological bias. Thus it has not been able to face squarely the question how linguistic function may have evolved from animal communication. Chimpanzees' use of signs from American Sign Language forces re-examination of language…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Animal Behavior, Communication (Thought Transfer), Evolution
Liben, Lynn S. – 1975
Considered are ways in which developmental theories, methodologies, and research findings may be used to clarify the concept of experiential deficiencies of deaf children. Examined are the effects on deaf children of deprivations in physical experiences (such as the reduction of information about objects provided by auditory feedback) and in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communication Problems, Deafness, Environmental Influences
Oregon State School for the Deaf, Salem. – 1974
This manual, which is intended to accompany a series of video tapes, is designed to provide a basic sign vocabulary for use by hearing persons in communicating with the deaf. The manual consists of an introduction, explanation of the illustrated signs, seventeen lessons, and an alphabetical index of signs. Each lesson in the manual contains an…
Descriptors: Deafness, Guides, Handicapped Children, Hearing Impairments
Moores, Donald F. – 1972
Presented are issues, background information, and a definition pertaining to manual communication, and explored are aspects of language development in aurally handicapped children. Proposed is a functional definition of American Sign Language, with High(H) (a system that accommodates itself to English, such as manual English) and Low (L) (a system…
Descriptors: Deafness, Exceptional Child Education, Hearing Impairments, Inservice Teacher Education
Kates, Solis L. – 1972
Investigated were aspects of language development (association, memory, comprehension, and production) in three groups (50 individuals per group) of deaf adolescents who were variously trained by the pure oral method, the combined oral-manual method, and the Rochester fingerspelling method. One hearing group was matched with the deaf in age, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Background, Exceptional Child Research, Finger Spelling
Peer reviewedMoores, Donald F. – School Psychology Digest, 1978
The history and development of various sign languages in Europe and America are described, and the characteristics of manual communication systems are discussed. Modifications of sign language have been used to communicate with nonvocal austic children, severely language-delayed children, and retarded adults. (CTM)
Descriptors: Autism, Deafness, Delayed Speech, Language Handicaps
Peer reviewedWoodward, James C. – Sign Language Studies, 1978
Native signs used as basic kin terms in 20 sign languages from several sign language families are examined. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Language Usage
Peer reviewedPenna, Karen L.; Caccamise, Frank – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
The goal of the Manual/Simultaneous Communication Department (M/SCD) at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is to assist deaf students in developing communication skills. (Author)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Communication Skills, Deafness, Finger Spelling
Peer reviewedBrasel, Kenneth E.; Quigley, Stephen P. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1977
Descriptors: Children, Deafness, Early Childhood Education, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedStokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 1987
Attempts to prove that users of American Sign Language (ASL) do perform within a closed system of manual and nonmanual sign production features (phonemes and distinctive features). Deaf signers are quite capable of creating nonsense words as well as communicating with signers of other languages through pantomime and other paralinguistic features.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills
