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Petitto, Laura-Ann – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2012
Revolutions can happen in different ways. About six years ago, a very particular type of revolution began in a cluster of rooms on the main campus of Gallaudet University. There, a handful of individuals began a "quiet revolution" guided by an overarching passionate mission to conduct groundbreaking science that would have widespread…
Descriptors: Visual Learning, Monolingualism, Learning Centers (Classroom), Bilingualism
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Bailes, Cynthia Neese; Erting, Lynne C.; Thumann-Prezioso, Carlene; Erting, Carol J. – Sign Language Studies, 2009
This longitudinal case study examined the language and literacy acquisition of a Deaf child as mediated by her signing Deaf parents during her first three years of life. Results indicate that the parents' interactions with their child were guided by linguistic and cultural knowledge that produced an intuitive use of child-directed signing (CDSi)…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Deafness, Cognitive Mapping, Human Body