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Peer reviewedLoeding, Barbara L.; Crittenden, Jerry B. – Exceptional Children, 1994
Two versions of a criterion-referenced videodisc-based instrument, SHIPS (Self-Help InterPersonal Skills), have been developed for high school students with hearing impairments. Students can choose either American Sign Language or English-based sign versions of assessment items. Field testing found that use of SHIPS enhanced data validity and…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Computer Assisted Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Deafness
Peer reviewedEikeseth, Svein; Jahr, Erik – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2001
A study evaluated a reading and writing program to help four children with autism acquire functional communication skills. A comparison of the rate of acquisition of reading and writing skills to the rate of acquiring receptive and expressive signs found that the acquisition of reading and writing was more successful. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Autism, Communication Skills, Instructional Effectiveness, Interpersonal Communication
Download full textEvans, Charlotte; Zimmer, Kyra – 1993
Sign Talk Development Project (STDP) is a four-pronged project that grows out of needs identified through the program of Sign Talk Children's Centre (STCC). STCC is a bilingual/bicultural day care for children of deaf parents in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The center offers programming in two languages, American Sign Language (ASL) and English; and in two…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Biculturalism, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
Stein, Laszlo; Pien, Diana – 1982
The document contains the final report of the HI-MAPS project, designed to develop a model program that would meet the medical, academic, and psychological needs of young hearing handicapped children, birth to 3 years, and their families in Chicago. An introductory section reviews project rationale, project philosophy, and overall project goals.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Counseling, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs
Peer reviewedRogers, Deborah – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1993
A project called "Show-Me Bedtime Reading" explored the effects of regular one-to-one evening reading and signing sessions on the development of expressive and receptive language skills of students with deafness. Test scores indicated the positive influence of individualized reading on the development of English competence. Learning strategies…
Descriptors: Deafness, Early Childhood Education, Expressive Language, Individualized Programs
Muro, Andres – 1997
This paper describes the activities and outcomes of a program in literacy education for the deaf funded by the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. The "L.E.A.D." program began in El Paso, Texas, on September 1, 1995, and ceased operations on July 31, 1997. The program was designed to improve communication in economically disadvantaged…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Communication Skills, Deafness, Economically Disadvantaged
