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Peer reviewedMcQuay, Kandy Connell; Coscarelli, Lenore Spagnuolo – American Annals of the Deaf, 1980
The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) uses a unique, individualized, Self-Instruction Lab to improve students' communication skills. The lab provides students with supplemental independent classroom practice that helps lessen time demands for the teacher. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Communication Skills, Deafness, Individual Instruction
Peer reviewedVan Hedel-van Grinsven, Ria – RE:view, 1989
The article describes methods used to bring a seven-year-old boy with severe auditory and visual impairments and no communication skills to a level of oral communication within one year. The manual, graphic, and oral-aural strategies used are described. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Hearing Impairments
Download full textStanovich, Paula J.; Stanovich, Keith E. – 1984
Students with the dual handicaps of hearing impairment and mental retardation display special problems in language acquisition. These problems do not appear to have been addressed by curricula that have been designed for either of the single handicap groups. Since specially designed curricula for this population are virtually nonexistent, a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Language Acquisition
Walker, Margaret – 1987
The paper describes the Makaton Vocabulary as an alternative communication mode for children and adults with communication and language difficulties. The language program comprises the following components: a core vocabulary based on concepts/items needed to express essential needs and experiences; the use of signs and/or symbols always associated…
Descriptors: Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Disorders, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Stewart, David A.; Hollifield, Aileen – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1988
A bilingual education program for deaf children (ages 13-16) in American Sign Language (ASL) and English is described. Using a team-teaching approach, a deaf teacher taught social studies using ASL while a hearing teacher taught language arts using Signed English and speech. Follow-up activities are summarized and a teaching unit outlined. (VW)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingual Education Programs, Deafness, English Instruction
Stewart, David A. – 1988
This paper argues that current practices in total communication classrooms have basically assigned the responsibility of communication to hearing-impaired students who must adapt to the variation in communication behaviors displayed by each of their teachers. The paper advocates use of a model communication and language policy designed to…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments
Anthony, Robert A.; And Others – 1994
This document includes a final report, manual, and booklets from a project conducted to develop an instructional video program and related print materials, combined with literacy training, peer sharing, and reading practice opportunities targeted to families of young children in which at least one member is deaf. In the video program, vignettes…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, Educational Resources
