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Millicent M. Musyoka – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2023
Writing often begins during the early years of childhood. Teachers' beliefs about early writing development can influence children's process in learning to write. The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine deaf education teachers' beliefs and practices regarding the process of development of Deaf children's emergent writing. An online…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Teaching Methods, American Sign Language
Kimberly Wolbers; Leala Holcomb; Laura Hamman-Ortiz – Grantee Submission, 2023
In this conceptual article, the authors introduce the Translanguaging Framework for Deaf Education (TFDE), drawing upon two perspectives on language and learning: crip linguistics and critical translanguaging space. The TFDE is a retheorization of the Language Zone, a pedagogical framework for supporting language learning in deaf education, and is…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Translation, Bilingualism, Deafness
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Graham, Steve; Wolbers, Kimberly; Dostal, Hannah; Holcomb, Leala – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2021
Forty-four elementary grade teachers of deaf and hard of hearing students were surveyed about how they taught writing and their beliefs about writing. Beliefs about writing included their self-efficacy to teach writing, attitude toward writing, and epistemological beliefs about writing. These teachers from fifteen different states in the United…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities
Graham, Steve; Wolbers, Kimberly; Dostal, Hannah; Holcomb, Leala – Grantee Submission, 2021
Forty-four elementary grade teachers of deaf and hard of hearing students were surveyed about how they taught writing and their beliefs about writing. Beliefs about writing included their self-efficacy to teach writing, attitude towards writing, and epistemological beliefs about writing. These teachers from 15 different states in the United States…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities
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Neria, Christy M.; Young, Stephanie M.; Colantuono, Delcina M. – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2019
Recently, the authors' district reconfigured the program for deaf and hard of hearing students, combining the Total Communication (TC) and Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) programs for elementary students and relocating students and staff into a single school. This prompted staff to reflect on and discuss the pedagogy unique to each program.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Total Communication, Listening
Colleen Lee Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The nature of this research study examines the relationship between text-talking and writing skills used by American Sign Language (ASL) and English speakers. When given ample opportunity to text-talk in academic settings, it is likely that students will improve their expressive communication and writing skills. The main research question asks:…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, American Sign Language, Writing Skills
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Leala Holcomb – Sign Language Studies, 2024
This investigation aimed to explore the feasibility of implementing the strategic and interactive signing instruction (SISI) framework and its potential to enhance the signed composition skills of four deaf students in a first/second-grade classroom. SISI was adapted from the existing strategic and interactive writing instruction (SIWI) framework…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Deafness, Teaching Methods, Grade 1
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Schwarz, Amy Louise; Guajardo, Jennifer; Hart, Rebecca – Deafness & Education International, 2020
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) literature, including the reading behaviour of Deaf adults, suggests that Teachers of the deaf (TODs) read different amounts of text during read alouds to DHH prereaders based on the spoken and visual communication modes DHH prereaders use, such as: American Sign Language (ASL), only spoken English (speech),…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Books
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Santini, Joseph – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2017
Among the fields that particularly lack images of diverse participants are those of science, technology, engineering, and math, fields captured under the acronym STEM. Often in STEM fields, images and experiences of deaf and hard of hearing children, children of color, and young women are rare or absent altogether, with the result that these…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, STEM Education, American Sign Language
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Reagan, Timothy – Educational Foundations, 2022
While there are many difficulties faced by world language educators, both teachers and students of certain languages--languages commonly identified with countries and cultures deemed to be hostile to the United States--often find themselves in uniquely paradoxical situations. This article begins with a brief anecdotal description of the personal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Indo European Languages
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Pizzo, Lianna – Sign Language Studies, 2018
Vocabulary development is an essential linguistic component of later English literacy skills (National Reading Panel 2000). However, very few studies have addressed the promotion of vocabulary development in deaf children who are American Sign Language users (Luckner and Cooke 2010). Therefore, this qualitative collective case study examined the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, American Sign Language, Teaching Methods, Deafness
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Greene-Woods, Ashley – American Annals of the Deaf, 2020
The language of instruction for Deaf children in the American educational system has long been the subject of debate: Should Deaf children learn language via American Sign Language (ASL), English-based visual communication systems, or spoken English only? It has long been the practice of the standard epistemology to encourage the use of verbal…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Special Needs Students
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Andrews, Jean F.; Liu, Hsiu-Tan; Liu, Chun-Jung; Gentry, Mary Anne; Smith, Zanthia – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
A feasibility study was conducted to test a storybook intervention to increase early reading skills of 25 young signing deaf children of ages 4-9 in grades K through third grade. The children had wide ranges of hearing losses, non-verbal IQs, and signing skills. All were at risk for developing early reading skills, reading below the first grade…
Descriptors: Young Children, Story Reading, Reading Skills, Elementary School Students
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Mathisen, Megan – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2013
In this article Megan Mathisen, a teacher of deaf and hard of hearing children at St. Anne Grade School in St. Anne, Illinois, describes her work with two boys in second grade and one boy in fifth grade who at the beginning of the school year had reading and language delays. After working with them, her second grade boys are now on grade level and…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Elementary School Students, Males
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Bennett, Jessica G.; Gardner, Ralph, III; Leighner, Ross; Clancy, Shannon; Garner, Joshua – American Annals of the Deaf, 2014
The Effects of the Language for Learning curriculum (Engelmann & Osborne, 1999) on through-the-air (i.e., signed and/or spoken) English skills for students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) were examined by means of a single-subject, concurrent-multiple-probes-across-participants design. Four 11-year-old participants varied in auditory…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Deafness, Partial Hearing
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