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Download full textMayberry, Rachel; Waters, Gloria S. – 1987
To test three hypotheses concerning fingerspelling's contribution to word recognition, 24 deaf children in three age groups (7-9, 10-12, and 13-15 years) were administered a vocabulary recognition test and a lexical decision task. Subjects' performance was measured by the number of words accurately identified and the response latency. Results did…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Finger Spelling, Sight Vocabulary
