This ethnographic study examines deaf people's experience of the Roman Catholic Sacrament of Confession in two Catholic schools for deaf children in the Republic of Ireland from 1950 to 1990. The article fills a gap in Catholic deaf education literature that fails to uncover the experiences of deaf children. It provides space for their storied…

Describes research into the correspondence between speech and sign language by looking at simultaneous communication as it is used by fluent deaf persons. The study aims to determine what relationship, if any, exists between the morpheme level and the message level of utterances in discourse. (SED)

Three adults with deafness who were raised in oral English settings and denied access to sign language chose to learn sign language as adults. Although they valued their ability to converse in English, they found the lack of spontaneity in communication left them isolated in school and family interactions. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)