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An Investigation of the Need for Sign Language Assessment in Deaf Education
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Mann, Wolfgang; Prinz, Philip M. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2006
The attitudes of educators of the deaf and other professionals in deaf education concerning assessment of the use of American Sign Language (ASL) and other sign systems was investigated. A questionnaire was distributed to teachers in a residential school for the deaf in California. In addition to questions regarding the availability of sign…
Descriptors: Residential Schools, American Sign Language, Deafness, Student Evaluation
ASL Proficiency and English Literacy within a Bilingual Deaf Education Model of Instruction.
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Prinz, Philip M.; Strong, Michael – Topics in Language Disorders, 1998
Examines the theoretical models and arguments in the debate concerning possible relationships between natural sign language proficiency and English literacy. It presents findings of a study with 155 school-aged deaf children that supported such a connection. (DB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
"Alligator Eats Cookie": Acquisition of Writing and Reading Skills by Deaf Children Using the Microcomputer.
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Prinz, Philip M.; Nelson, Keith E. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1985
Reports research which investigated the effects of microcomputer technology on the acquisition of writing and reading skills in 32 deaf children. The learning mechanism underlying the instructional system used is responsive, interactional and exploratory, reflective of the way most children acquire a first language. (SED)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Deafness
Acquisition of ASL and Spoken English in a Hearing Child of a Deaf Mother and Hearing Father: Phase I--Early Lexical Development. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, Number 17.
Prinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A. – 1979
This research focused on the initial stage of language development of a hearing child who was acquiring simultaneously both spoken English and American Sign Language (ASL). The report covers the first phase of the longitudinal research on the child's linguistic development, focusing on early word meanings. The data were collected from the time…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Child Language, Concept Formation
Acquisition of ASL and Spoken English by a Hearing Child of a Deaf Mother and a Hearing Father: Phase II, Early Combinatorial Patterns.
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Prinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A. – Sign Language Studies, 1981
Studies the simultaneous language development in American Sign Language and spoken English by a hearing girl. Findings show: (1) a mixture of oral and manual babbling, (2) a code-switching ability across modalities, and (3) a single syntactic system incorporating rules from both languages but with two separate lexicons. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Simultaneous Acquisition of ASL and Spoken English (In a Hearing Child of a Deaf Mother and Hearing Father).
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Prinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A. – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Reports on an experiment describing the lexical development of a hearing child with a deaf mother and hearing father. Data confirm previous findings that (1) sign emerges before spoken word, (2) acquisition stages are similar in ASL and spoken English, and (3) the child initially develops one lexical system. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, English, Language Acquisition
Acquisition of American Sign Language and Spoken English in a Hearing Child of a Deaf Mother and Hearing Father: Phase II-Early Combinatorial Patterns of Communication.
Prinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A. – 1979
A study was conducted of the language development of a hearing child whose mother was deaf and communicated only in sign and whose father was hearing and communicated in both sign and oral language. Results showed similarities in development between the two modalities as well as similarity between development in two separate modalities and two…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Lending a Helping Hand: Linguistic Input and Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children.
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Prinz, Philip M.; Masin, Louise – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1985
Examines the effect of adult recasting in sign language on the acquisition of specific syntactic-semantic structures by deaf children aged 9 to 76 months. Results indicated that recasting triggered the acquisition of new syntactic-semantic structures in American Sign Language and English, evident in the spontaneous production of previously…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Deafness