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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
Roy, Cynthia B.; And Others – 1980
A project was conducted to develop a curriculum for training interpreters to use American Sign Language (ASL) to serve the deaf. The three-phase project involved (1) a task analysis to catalog the skills needed by interpreters and location of existing materials to determine areas where material needed to be developed; (2) development of a model…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Annotated Bibliographies, Competence, Curriculum Development
Download full textCalifornia State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1989
California's framework for second language education describes the state's requirements for development of effective foreign language instruction in the public schools. Chapters address these topics: (1) the economic, civic, and cultural benefits of a foreign language program; (2) characteristics of an effective program, including…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, American Sign Language, Classical Languages, Classroom Techniques
