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Brooke, M. V. – British Journal of Special Education, 1986
No significant differences were found between average reading ages of 14 hearing impaired students learning via the oral method (group 1) and 20 hearing impaired students learning via a sign system (group 2). Group 2 Ss wrote fewer words and shorter sentences but their sentences were more grammatically mature and more often correct. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Oral Communication Method, Reading Achievement
Briscoe, Ted, Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers examines how children acquire language and how this affects language change over the generations. It proceeds from the basis that it is important to address not only the language faculty per se within the framework of evolutionary theory, but also the origins and subsequent development of languages themselves, suggesting…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Cultural Influences, Evolution, Grammar
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Boothroyd, Arthur – Volta Review, 1988
Hearing-impaired speechreaders use linguistic context to compensate for the poor visibility of some speech movements. Constraints on spoken language enhance speechreading performance and help compensate for the paucity of sensory data. The largest effects come from linguistic constraints imposed by sentence context--syntactic, semantic, and…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Cues, Hearing Impairments, Linguistics
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Brasel, Kenneth E.; Quigley, Stephen P. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1977
Descriptors: Children, Deafness, Early Childhood Education, Exceptional Child Research
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Power, Des; And Others – CAEDHH Journal/La Revue ACESM, 1996
Storytelling by six teachers of the deaf was videotaped under three simulated conditions, as if they were presenting to hearing listeners, to oral deaf listeners, and to users of simultaneous communication. A number of grammatical and lexical characteristics were examined including Type-Token Ratios, a measure of lexical diversity, and Minimal…
Descriptors: Deafness, Difficulty Level, Grammar, Language Patterns
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Girgin, Umit – International Journal of Special Education, 2006
The purpose of the current study is to evaluate the reading comprehension of hearing impaired 8th graders who are being trained through an auditory-oral approach. The evaluation is conducted through miscue analysis using complex stories. To realize this aim, the following research questions are formulated. (1) To what extent do hearing impaired…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Syntax, Deafness
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Tur-Kaspa, Hana; Dromi, Esther – Volta Review, 1999
A language assessment procedure was used with spontaneous spoken and written language samples of 13 orally trained children with hearing loss in integrated classrooms in two Israeli elementary schools. Results revealed significant differences between spoken and written language samples of these children in various correct syntactic structures,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language