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The Efficacy of a Key Word Signing Workshop
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Krista L. McMorran-Maus – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined the effect of a 1-day, 6-hour key word signing (KWS) workshop on in-service special education teachers' and speech-language pathologists' (SLPs) (a) skill identifying American Sign Language (ASL) signs; (b) skill producing ASL signs; (c) use of KWS in the classroom or therapy room; and (d) perceived changes from taking part in…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Allied Health Personnel, Speech Language Pathology, American Sign Language
Sign Boundaries in American Sign Language.
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Green, Kerry – Sign Language Studies, 1984
Two experiments questioned whether deaf signers agree on the location of sign boundaries in American Sign Language (ASL), as well as where in time the boundaries are located. Results indicated that the deaf subjects were using linguistic knowledge of ASL when making judgments of the location of sign boundaries. (SL)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Language Research, Manual Communication
Establishing Words and Objects as Functionally Equivalent Through Manual Sign Training
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VanBiervliet, Alan – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1977
A study involving six institutionalized retarded males was designed to determine if sign-object and sign-word training would lead to acquisition of word-object associations. (Author)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Language Instruction, Manual Communication
Coding Medium and Word Recall by Deaf and Hearing Subjects
Odom, Penelope B.; And Others – J Speech Hearing Res, 1970
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Finger Spelling, Hearing Impairments, Manual Communication