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Deaf Patients' Preferred Communication in Clinical Settings: Implications for Healthcare Providers
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Sarah Hall; Michael Ballard – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
Deaf patients who communicate in American Sign Language (ASL) experience communication challenges leading to medical errors, treatment delays, and health disparities. Research on Deaf patient communication preferences is sparse. Researchers conducted focus groups based on the Health Belief Model with culturally Deaf patients and interpreters. The…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, Patients, Deaf Interpreting
Application of the Structured Analysis of Written Language Tool to the Writing of Deaf Chinese Students
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Yachong Cui; Rachel Saulsburry; Kimberly Wolbers – American Annals of the Deaf, 2024
Limited access to spoken and signed language is a worldwide phenomenon affecting deaf children. Language delay caused by impeded language acquisition has negative cascading effects on deaf children's learning and development. In the event of stymied language development, deaf students exhibit highly errored writing and commit errors unseen in the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Written Language, Writing Evaluation, North Americans
Differences in Praxis Performance and Receptive Language during Fingerspelling between Deaf Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Bhat, Anjana N.; Srinivasan, Sudha M.; Woxholdt, Colleen; Shield, Aaron – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Children with autism spectrum disorder present with a variety of social communication deficits such as atypicalities in social gaze and verbal and non-verbal communication delays as well as perceptuo-motor deficits like motor incoordination and dyspraxia. In this study, we had the unique opportunity to study praxis performance in deaf children…
Descriptors: Deafness, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Severity (of Disability)
Palm Reversal Errors in Native-Signing Children with Autism
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Shield, Aaron; Meier, Richard P. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2012
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who have native exposure to a sign language such as American Sign Language (ASL) have received almost no scientific attention. This paper reports the first studies on a sample of five native-signing children (four deaf children of deaf parents and one hearing child of deaf parents; ages 4;6 to 7;5)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, American Sign Language, Autism, Deafness
A Phonological Analysis of a Deaf Parkinsonian Signer.
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Brentari, Diane; Poizner, Howard – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994
Reductions and timing errors were 2 major signing disruptions observed in a 64-year-old deaf signer with Parkinson's disease; these errors are phonetic rather than phonological in nature. Error analysis yields information about sign prosody and American Sign Language phonological representation. (Contains 54 references.) (JP)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Morphological Innovation in the Acquisition of American Sign Language.
van Hoek, Karen; And Others – 1987
A study examined aspects of the acquisition of spatialized morphology and syntax in American Sign Language (ASL) learned natively by deaf children of deaf parents. Children aged 2 to 8 were shown story books to elicit narratives, and the resulting use of verbs contained morphological forms not appearing in adult grammar. Analysis of the creative…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Children, Deafness