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Scott, Jessica; Henner, Jon; Skyer, Michael E. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2023
Deaf education research and practice have not always lived up to the ideal of improving deaf students' lives. Consequently, we have constructed novel arguments supporting deaf pedagogy using pragmatic ethics, the aim of which is to increase benefit and decrease harm to individuals and society. The ideal of "harm reduction" asks the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities, Access to Education
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Henner, Jon; Novogrodsky, Rama; Reis, Jeanne; Hoffmeister, Robert – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2018
In recent years, normed signed language assessments have become a useful tool for researchers, practitioners, and advocates. Nevertheless, there are limitations in their application, particularly for the diagnosis of language disorders, and learning disabilities. Here, we discuss some of the available normed, signed language assessments and some…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Evaluation Methods, Clinical Diagnosis
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Novogrodsky, Rama; Henner, Jon; Caldwell-Harris, Catherine; Hoffmeister, Robert – Language Learning, 2017
Factors influencing native and nonnative signers' syntactic judgment ability in American Sign Language (ASL) were explored for 421 deaf students aged 7;6-18;5. Predictors for syntactic knowledge were chronological age, age of entering a school for the deaf, gender, and additional learning disabilities. Mixed-effects linear modeling analysis…
Descriptors: Grammar, Sign Language, American Sign Language, Deafness