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Cannon, Joanna E.; Fredrick, Laura D.; Easterbrooks, Susan R. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2010
Reading to children improves vocabulary acquisition through incidental exposure, and it is a best practice for parents and teachers of children who can hear. Children who are deaf or hard of hearing are at risk for not learning vocabulary as such. This article describes a procedure for using books read on DVD in American Sign Language with…
Descriptors: Partial Hearing, Deafness, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development
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Allgood, Margaret Highnote; Heller, Kathryn Wolff; Easterbrooks, Susan R.; Fredrick, Laura D. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2009
A mismatch of communication modalities can occur between students who communicate using sign language and coworkers at community-based vocational sites who do not use sign language. This study investigated the use of picture dictionaries to facilitate note writing as a form of expressive communication for students who were deaf and had mild to…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Visual Aids, Deafness, Mental Retardation