Sign Language Facilitation of Reading with Students Classified as Trainable Mentally-Handicapped.

Sensenig, Larry D.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ395151

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Publication Date: 1989

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Sign Language Facilitation of Reading with Students Classified as Trainable Mentally-Handicapped.

Sensenig, Larry D.; And Others

Education and Training in Mental Retardation, v24 n2 p121-25 Jun 1989

The study examined the effectiveness of using sign language (Signing Exact English) to facilitate reading in students classified as trainable mentally handicapped. Results indicated that subjects learning to read words with an accompanying sign identified and retained significantly more vocabulary than did students learning to read in a traditional manner. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Modalities, Moderate Mental Retardation, Multisensory Learning, Sight Vocabulary, Sign Language, Teaching Methods

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Language: English

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