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Social Maturity and Executive Function among Deaf Learners
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Marschark, Marc; Kronenberger, William G.; Rosica, Mark; Borgna, Georgianna; Convertino, Carol; Durkin, Andreana; Machmer, Elizabeth; Schmitz, Kathryn L. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2017
Two experiments examined relations among social maturity, executive function, language, and cochlear implant (CI) use among deaf high school and college students. Experiment 1 revealed no differences between deaf CI users, deaf nonusers, and hearing college students in measures of social maturity. However, deaf students (both CI users and…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Executive Function, Language Skills, Assistive Technology
Sign-Supported English: Is It Effective at Teaching Vocabulary to Young Children with English as an Additional Language?
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Marshall, Chloë R.; Hobsbaum, Angela – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2015
Background: Children who are learning English as an Additional Language (EAL) may start school with smaller vocabularies than their monolingual peers. Given the links between vocabulary and academic achievement, it is important to evaluate interventions that are designed to support vocabulary learning in this group of children. Aims: To evaluate…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Pragmatic Language in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: Correlation with Success in General Education
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Thagard, Elaine Kirk; Hilsmier, Amanda Strong; Easterbrooks, Susan R. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2011
Deaf and hard of hearing children have shown delays and difficulties in pragmatic behaviors due to insufficient exposure to common daily discourse and underlying impoverishment in all components of language development. In a study in a school district in a southeastern U.S. state, the researchers investigated the relationship between…
Descriptors: Speech, General Education, Oral Language, Partial Hearing
Learning with a Missing Sense: What Can We Learn from the Interaction of a Deaf Child with a Turtle?
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Miller, Paul – American Annals of the Deaf, 2009
This case study reports on the progress of Navon, a 13-year-old boy with prelingual deafness, over a 3-month period following exposure to Logo, a computer programming language that visualizes specific programming commands by means of a virtual drawing tool called the Turtle. Despite an almost complete lack of skills in spoken and sign language,…
Descriptors: Speech, Sign Language, Programming Languages, Oral Language
Successful Students Who Are Deaf in General Education Settings.
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Luckner, John L.; Muir, Sheryl – American Annals of the Deaf, 2001
Qualitative procedures (observation and interviews with students, teachers, and parents) were used to evaluate characteristics of 20 deaf students succeeding in general education settings. The students' primary communication modes were closely divided between sign language and spoken English. Results of the interviews, a summary of observations,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication Skills, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
Factors Predictive of the Development of Literacy in Profoundly Hearing-Impaired Adolescents.
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Geers, Ann; Moog, Jean – Volta Review, 1989
A study of reading, writing, spoken and signed language, speech perception and production, and cognition of 100 profoundly hearing-impaired students in oral and mainstream high school programs suggests that hearing-impaired students have much higher potential for literacy than previously reported, and that the primary predictor is English-language…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries