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Direct linkRose, Susan; McAnally, Patricia L.; Quigley, Stephen P. – PRO-ED, Inc., 2004
This text provides future and practicing teachers of deaf children with basic theoretical and research knowledge as well as specific principles and practices for fostering the development of language and reading. In this third edition of "Language Learning Practices with Deaf Children," the authors have added a section on language assessment in…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Special Programs, Preservice Teachers
Finnegan, Margaret H. – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1988
Deaf children need reading programs which emphasize comprehension of meaning rather than syntax and grammar. Successful reading programs can emerge when reading is viewed as a highly social experience, reading materials are meaningful and highly contextualized, and semantic processing in American Sign Language is used to assist reading in English.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Beginning Reading, Deafness, Educational Practices
