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Download full textMinnesota Department of Education, 2017
This biennial report contains information about the efforts and initiatives of education-based agencies, departments, and individuals in Minnesota who served students who were deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) during the 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years. The report also summarizes the results for students who took the Minnesota Comprehensive…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Age Differences, Gender Differences, Racial Differences
Direct linkRayman, Jennifer – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
This paper is a thought experiment exploring the possibility of establishing universal bilingualism in Sign Languages. Focusing in the first part on historical examples of inclusive signing societies such as Martha's Vineyard, the author suggests that it is not possible to create such naturally occurring practices of Sign Bilingualism in societies…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Language Planning, Sign Language, Deafness
Peer reviewedPeffley, Sybil – American Annals of the Deaf, 1991
An outsider to the field of deaf education questions the seeming ambiguousness in terminology, lack of scientific research, continuing controversies, and lack of definitive answers. Questions concern such issues as the difference between "Deaf" and "deaf" and the feasibility of the American Sign Language/English-as-a-Second-Language proposal.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Stuckless, E. Ross, Ed.; And Others – 1989
This report is intended to stimulate initiatives on the part of governmental, professional, and consumer organizations and institutions that prepare educational interpreters who work with deaf students. Following an introductory chapter on the development of educational interpreting for deaf students, other chapters discuss: (1) job titles and…
Descriptors: Certification, Consumer Education, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
Loux, Donny – 1996
This booklet presents basic issues and recommendations of a Nevada legislative task force on the establishment of courses in American Sign Language (ASL) for credit as a foreign language in the public schools and institutions of higher education. An introductory section, "American Sign Language and Deaf Culture Issues and Answers: A Basic…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Credits, Curriculum Development, Deafness
Paul, Peter V. – 1990
This paper discusses the use of American Sign Language (ASL) in an English-as-a-Second-Language approach to teaching reading and writing skills to deaf students. The paper poses and answers the following theoretical and practical questions: (1) What is the nature of first language reading? (2) What is the nature of second language reading? (3)…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingual Education, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
Commission on Education of the Deaf, Washington, DC. – 1988
The report concludes that education of persons who are deaf in the United States is characterized by inappropriate priorities and inadequate resources. Among deficiencies identified are the failure to implement available preventive and early identification procedures, monitor educational programs, and use tools of advancing technology. Specific…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness, Early Identification
