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Peer reviewedLang, Harry G.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1994
Interviews with 56 deaf college students resulted in accounts of 839 "critical incidents" describing effective and ineffective teaching. Thirty-three specific teaching characteristics were identified. The teacher's ability to communicate clearly in sign language was the most frequently occurring characteristic of effective teaching identified.…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Skills, Critical Incidents Method, Deafness
Peer reviewedLuckner, 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
Direct linkSingleton, Jenny L.; Morgan, Dianne; DiGello, Elizabeth; Wiles, Jill; Rivers, Rachel – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2004
The written English vocabulary of 72 deaf elementary school students of various proficiency levels in American Sign Language (ASL) was compared with the performance of 60 hearing English-as-a-second-language (ESL) speakers and 61 hearing monolingual speakers of English, all of similar age. Students were asked to retell "The Tortoise and the Hare"…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Deafness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Fernandez-Viader, Maria del Pilar; Fuentes, Mariana – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2004
This article examines the legal instruments and educational politics affecting deaf persons' educational rights in Spain. We present a historical view of deaf education in Spain before and after the Congress of Milan (1880) and then introduce educational legislation and practices in recent decades. At present, Spanish legislation is moving toward…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Bilingual Education, Deafness
Hustad, Katherine C.; Garcia, Jane Mertz – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
Purpose: This study compared the influence of speaker-implemented iconic hand gestures and alphabet cues on speech intelligibility scores and strategy helpfulness ratings for 3 adults with cerebral palsy and dysarthria who differed from one another in their overall motor abilities. Method: A total of 144 listeners (48 per speaker) orthographically…
Descriptors: Speech Therapy, Alphabets, Cues, Sign Language
Nikolaraizi, Magda; Makri, Maria – American Annals of the Deaf, 2005
The study explored the beliefs of 100 residents of Greece about the capabilities of deaf people living in that country. Participants included deaf adults who communicated in Greek Sign Language (GSL), deaf adults who communicated orally, hearing adults who attended GSL courses, and hearing adults who did not attend such courses. Beliefs were…
Descriptors: Deafness, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Adults
Download full textLoeterman, Mardi; And Others – 1994
The CC School project, which included 18 elementary students with deafness enrolled in the TRIPOD program within the Burbank (California) Public Schools, applied a personal video captioning technology in a workstation setting to a weekly writing experience that involved translating short American Sign Language video stories into written English…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Captions, Deafness, Demonstration Programs
Strong, Michael, Ed. – 1988
This collection of original papers draws upon work in linguistics, psychology, and education to highlight the relationship between language acquisition in deaf and hearing populations. The book's 11 chapters are divided into 2 sections, Theoretical Issues and Research Reports. Titles and authors are as follows: "Language Varieties in the Deaf…
Descriptors: Adults, American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Child Language
Abdulezer, Susan – 1995
This report describes ongoing activities and results of the HyperSign Immersion Project developed at the Public School for the Deaf in New York City, New York. The project's objectives were to: (1) provide a means to enable Deaf students to assume a self-directed role in education; (2) provide an on-site prototype of a technologically supportive…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Deafness, Demonstration Programs, Educational Technology
Williams, Cheri L.; And Others – 1992
This study focuses on the language and literacy worlds of three profoundly deaf preschool children, whose lack of a strong spoken English base provided an opportunity to explore the relationship between spoken language development and written language development and to investigate young children's written language development in light of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Deafness, Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition
Stuckless, E. Ross, Ed.; And Others – 1989
This report is intended to stimulate initiatives on the part of governmental, professional, and consumer organizations and institutions that prepare educational interpreters who work with deaf students. Following an introductory chapter on the development of educational interpreting for deaf students, other chapters discuss: (1) job titles and…
Descriptors: Certification, Consumer Education, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
Norton, Melanie J.; Kovalik, Gail L. – 1989
This bibliography is aimed at public librarians' need to grasp the rapidly expanding body of literature related to deafness and hearing loss, especially in libraries aspiring to maintain a comprehensive collection on the subject. The annotated citations are of materials published from 1973 to 1989 and are divided into sections on: communication…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness, Deafness
Dooley, Robert A., Ed.; Bickford, J. Albert, Ed. – 1989
The volume represents in microcosm the sort of faculty-trainee-student interaction that is a priority at the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) at the University of North Dakota. Seven studies by faculty and students of SIL include the following: "Lexical Variation in Mexican Sign Language" (J. Albert Bickford); "Reflexives in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Greek, Language Patterns, Language Research
Waldo, Lois J.; And Others – 1981
The Total Communication Checklist and Assessment screening tool for multihandicapped students is presented to assist the language examiner to select areas requiring more precise testing. The checklist, which contains 196 rating entries, consists of the following four sections: (1) readiness for symbolic communication, (2) preference for speech,…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Guidelines, Language Handicaps, Multiple Disabilities
van Hoek, Karen; And Others – 1987
A study examined aspects of the acquisition of spatialized morphology and syntax in American Sign Language (ASL) learned natively by deaf children of deaf parents. Children aged 2 to 8 were shown story books to elicit narratives, and the resulting use of verbs contained morphological forms not appearing in adult grammar. Analysis of the creative…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Children, Deafness
