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Stein, Miriam – Academic Therapy, 1982
Finger spelling is a technique which helps children in first and second grade and remedial classes learn to spell short-vowel words, sound by sound, using their fingers as aids. (SW)
Descriptors: Finger Spelling, Learning Disabilities, Phonetics, Primary Education
Stein, Miriam – Academic Therapy, 1983
Suggestions are made for incorporating finger-spelling with sound blending in spelling instruction for handicapped and nonhandicapped children. Teaching materials are described, and five steps in teaching how to spell a three letter word are listed. (CL)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Finger Spelling, Kinesthetic Perception, Phonics
Kindelin, Heidy – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1988
A teacher devised an activity based on the game show "Wheel of Fortune" to spark her deaf students' interest in fingerspelling. "Fingerspelling Fortune" spells out puzzles using cards with handshapes. As the cards are turned and the students try to guess the phrases, they increase proficiency in recognizing handshapes. (VW)
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Finger Spelling
Peer reviewedVernon, McCay; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1980
The authors describe the results from a study using sign language and the manual alphabet to improve spelling skills of learning disabled second graders. (SBH)
Descriptors: Finger Spelling, Manual Communication, Primary Education, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedMcKnight, Jan C. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1979
The manual alphabet was used as an adjunct to a linguistic reading system to achieve the following goals with primary grade learning disabled children: (1) ensure attention, (2) reinforce the learning of phonemes, (3) guide the student if he had difficulties, (4) introduce prefixes and suffixes, and (5) provide the child with an independent…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Finger Spelling, Learning Disabilities, Manual Communication
Alberta Education Response Centre, Edmonton. – 1990
The educational unit on deafness for hearing students was developed by the Alberta (Canada) School for the Deaf and covers: (1) an introduction to deafness (covering types of hearing loss, causes of deafness, misconceptions and clarifications, and the programs of the Alberta School for the Deaf); (2) famous deaf Canadians; (3) a quiz on the deaf…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology, Exceptional Persons
Peer reviewedHirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Reading Teacher, 1986
Shows that fingerspelling makes learning the task of separating the word into its parts fun as well as easier for some students. (FL)
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Finger Spelling, Hearing Impairments, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedMonteith, Mary K – Journal of Reading, 1980
Discusses background information about the deaf that may be useful to reading teachers working with older deaf students; suggests additional sources of information on sign language and reading instruction for the deaf. (MKM)
Descriptors: Adults, Deafness, Finger Spelling, Higher Education
Download full textStewart, David A.; And Others – 1989
The paper addresses problems teachers of the severely hearing impaired have in being bimodal (speech plus signs) English role models as well as in using American Sign Language. The project described in this paper centers around inservice training and in-class demonstrations of the use of a modified form of Signed English to provide a visual…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Communication Skills, Deafness, Demonstration Programs
