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Peer reviewedStall, C. Harmon; Marshall, Philip H. – Sign Language Studies, 1981
Presents study designed to determine whether interruption in the use of the manual encoding modality would retard learning in prelingually deaf subjects. One group of students used finger spelling and finger numeration in learning eight pairs of number-word combinations while the other group used no manual encoding. Results show groups using…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Comparative Analysis, Deafness
Peer reviewedLuetke-Stahlman, Barbara – Sign Language Studies, 1984
Study indicates that hearing impaired residential students are more proficient users of American Sign Language than are hearing impaired children enrolled in local, public school programs, and older such residential students are more proficient in the language than are younger students. (SL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Sign Language, Children, Comparative Analysis
