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Darenda A. Kirby – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Visual phonics, a system of 46 hand-shapes with equivalent symbols, when used together are called "cues." These cues couple with the 46 phoneme sounds of spoken English. Visual phonics was originally developed by a mother for her deaf son to aid in teaching speech and reading. This study was designed to compare students in two different…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Students with Disabilities, Phonics, Visual Aids
Blackburn, Angelique Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Bilinguals sometimes outperform age-matched monolinguals on non-language tasks involving cognitive control. But the bilingual advantage is not consistently found in every experiment and may reflect specific attributes of the bilinguals tested. The goal of this dissertation was to determine if the way in which bilinguals use language, specifically…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Interference (Language), Cognitive Ability