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Sayers, Edna Edith – Sign Language Studies, 2021
In the early decades of the nineteenth century, when Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was famously advocating for sign language to be the language of instruction for deaf children in the United States, European philosophers were founding modern linguistics. Gallaudet was not able to benefit from their breakthroughs, however, because his upbringing,…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Advocacy, Teaching Methods
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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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Appanah, Thangi M.; Hoffman, Nancy – American Annals of the Deaf, 2014
The authors investigated the impact of the Deaf Student Editing Rubric (DSER) as a self-editing tool on the writing performance of prelingually profoundly deaf adolescent students whose first language is American Sign Language. The DSER was developed by the first author. The study participants included 15 Deaf students in 4 classrooms in grades…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Deafness, Partial Hearing, Scoring Rubrics