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Yoon, Joong-O.; Kim, Minjeong – American Annals of the Deaf, 2011
The authors examined the effects of captions on deaf students' content comprehension, cognitive load, and motivation in online learning. The participants in the study were 62 deaf adult students who had limited reading comprehension skills and used sign language as a first language. Participants were randomly assigned to either the control group…
Descriptors: Deafness, Adult Students, Comprehension, Cognitive Processes
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Luftig, Richard L.; Bersani, Henry A., Jr. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1988
The learning of a list of 20 Blissymbols and comparable American Sign Language signs by 121 nonhandicapped undergraduate psychology students was compared. Blissymbols were learned significantly faster than manual signs, particularly in early learning trials. Results are discussed in terms of the memory requirements of the two systems. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level