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Chenausky, Karen V.; Verdes, Alison; Shield, Aaron – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: Manual sign is a common alternative mode of communication taught to children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Gesture use is positively related to later increases in vocabulary and syntactic complexity in typical development, but there is little evidence supporting the use of manual sign for children with CAS. We sought to identify…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Sign Language, Children, Communication Skills
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Erin West; Shani Dettman – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: There are well-established guidelines for the recording, transcription, and analysis of spontaneous oral language samples by researchers, educators, and speech pathologists. In contrast, there is presently no consensus regarding methods for the written documentation of sign language samples. The Handshape Analysis Recording Tool (HART) is…
Descriptors: Documentation, Sign Language, Bilingual Education, Biculturalism
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Kelley, Lauren E.; McCann, James P. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: This case study describes the language evaluation and treatment of a 5-year-old boy, Lucas, who is Deaf, uses American Sign Language (ASL), and presented with a language disorder despite native access to ASL and no additional diagnosis that would explain the language difficulties. Method: Lucas participated in an evaluation where his…
Descriptors: Deafness, Young Children, American Sign Language, Language Impairments
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Crowe, Kathryn; McLeod, Sharynne; McKinnon, David H.; Ching, Teresa Y. C. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2014
Purpose: The authors sought to investigate the influence of a comprehensive range of factors on the decision making of caregivers of children with hearing loss regarding the use of speech, the use of sign, spoken language multilingualism, and spoken language choice. This is a companion article to the qualitative investigation described in Crowe,…
Descriptors: Children, Hearing Impairments, Speech, Sign Language
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Quinto-Pozos, David; Forber-Pratt, Anjali J.; Singleton, Jenny L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: This study focused on whether developmental communication disorders exist in American Sign Language (ASL) and how they might be characterized. ASL studies is an emerging field; educators and clinicians have minimal access to descriptions of communication disorders of the signed modality. Additionally, there are limited resources for…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Communication Disorders, American Sign Language, Grounded Theory
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Coryell, Judith; Holcomb, Thomas K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1997
Historical and current trends, practices, and perspectives regarding manual communication in educating deaf children are discussed, including Manually Coded English systems and American Sign Language. Issues concerning choice of sign language/systems and instructional strategies that support sign usage (such as Total Communication, Simultaneous…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingual Education, Deafness, Educational Practices
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Reichle, Joe; Ward, Mary – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1985
A 13-year-old communicatively and intellectually delayed male was taught to use discriminatively each of two previously acquired augmentative systems that consisted of signing and direct select letter encoding. Procedures used resulted in the use of signs with signers and direct select encoding with nonsigners. (Author)
Descriptors: Communication Aids (for Disabled), Moderate Mental Retardation, Sign Language
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Daniloff, Joanne Kelsch; Shafer, Audrey – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1981
A communication program of Amer-Ind (a gestural communication system based on American Indian Hand Talk) was developed for 21 severely and profoundly mentally retarded children (8 to 18 years old). (Author)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Nonverbal Communication, Severe Mental Retardation, Sign Language
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Shelton, Ivy Skaife; Garves, Mary Mertes – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1985
The paper describes the development of Signed Target Phoneme (STP) Therapy, using the hand shapes of the Americal Manual Alphabet to cue phonemes. Adding STP to traditional therapy methods with a five-year-old boy diagnosed as having developmental apraxia of speech revealed a positive relationship between application of STP procedures and a more…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Speech Handicaps, Speech Therapy, Visual Learning
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Goodman, Linda; Kroc, Robin – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1981
The article describes a strategy used to teach sign communication to severely handicapped students in the classroom. It recommends that the speech-language pathologist adopt a consultant role in service delivery. (Author)
Descriptors: Consultants, Elementary Secondary Education, Role Perception, Severe Disabilities
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Kouri, Theresa – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1989
During an eight-month treatment regimen utilizing simultaneous sign/speech input, all of the words of a young girl with Down's Syndrome were recorded. Analyses revealed that most of the words she initially signed were later spontaneously spoken and that most of her signed productions evolved into spontaneous spoken productions. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Downs Syndrome, Intervention, Language Acquisition, Manual Communication
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Osborne, J. Grayson; Gatch, Michael B. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1989
Two five-year-old children with profound hearing impairments were involved in a conditional discrimination task. They were taught to relate manual signs, pictures, and printed words in a nominal matching-to-sample task in such a way that equivalent stimuli resulted. Results showed that the establishment of equivalence relations can promote…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Hearing Impairments, Intervention, Learning Processes
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Liles, Betty Z.; And Others – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1992
Disfluencies in the verbal and signed language of a 10-year-old moderately mentally retarded boy were analyzed. Discussion addresses implications for the accurate characterization of stuttering in manual communication and appropriate approaches to management in such cases. (DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Intervention
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Marvin, Chris; Kasal, Kathleen R. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1996
Analysis of videotapes of the signed communication (mostly Signed Exact English) of five preschool children with deafness in a special class found their communications brief and focused on the here-and-now. Topics of conversation were similar to those of nondisabled children. Child-initiated utterances were longer and more semantically diverse…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Deafness, Discourse Analysis