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Olivia Rush; Krystal L. Werfel; Emily Lund – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study compares responses of children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) who use spoken language with responses of children who have typical hearing on a repeated word association task to evaluate lexical-semantic organization. Method: This study included 109 participants in early kindergarten or who had completed first grade. The…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Students
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Qun Li; Jia He; Min Liu; Ruijing Lu; Xueying Wang – Deafness & Education International, 2024
This study aims to document the implementation of sign bilingualism and co-enrollment education in a kindergarten in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, to identify the major characteristics of the programme, and to report findings of children's language in terms of vocabulary and surveys on the views and attitudes of the stakeholders of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Kindergarten, Language Acquisition
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Gabriella Reynolds; Krystal L. Werfel; Sarah Hudgins; Stephen Camarata; Fred H. Bess – Exceptional Children, 2024
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the types of spelling errors made by children with mild to moderate hearing loss (CMMHL) compared with children with typical hearing (TH) and to determine if types of spelling errors were related to linguistic or audiologic factors. CMMHL and TH completed measures of spelling, spoken language, speech…
Descriptors: Spelling, Error Patterns, Hearing Impairments, Correlation
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Volpato, Francesca – First Language, 2020
Verbal working memory resources may impact syntax comprehension. Thirteen Italian children with cochlear implants (CIs) were assessed in relative clause (RC) comprehension, digit span and nonword repetition and compared to 13 chronological age peers (CA) and 13 younger controls (LA) with normal hearing (NH). The RC comprehension task tested…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Short Term Memory, Assistive Technology, Prediction
Odom-Bible, Ginger L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This quantitative study examined the perceptions of educational leaders regarding their professional assessments of kindergarten screenings, registrations and educational practices relating to the readiness of children to do school work before they enter kindergarten. This examination finds shared commonalities between educational leaders from a…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Kindergarten, School Districts, School Readiness
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Snyder, Robert; Johnson, Jordan – Science and Children, 2010
"I've never heard of a small speck of dust that is able to yell" says Horton of a sound he hears well (Geisel 1954). It is always valuable to connect science to student's interests and their everyday world--so what better way to teach concepts relating to sound than to read "Horton Hears a Who" by Dr. Seuss? Here the authors present several…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Methodology, Science Activities, Auditory Stimuli
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Daniels, Marilyn – Reading Research and Instruction, 2004
The purpose of this investigation was to assess the effect of American Sign Language (ASL) instruction on typical hearing kindergarten children's literacy in four specific areas: receptive English vocabulary, expressive English vocabulary, ASL ability, and English emergent reading level. The research was specifically modeled after a 1997 United…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary, Phonology, Kindergarten