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Wang, Qiuying; Andrews, Jean; Liu, Hsiu Tan; Liu, Chun Jung – American Annals of the Deaf, 2016
Case studies of adult d/Deaf or Hard of Hearing Multilingual Learners (DMLs) are few, especially studies of DMLs who learn more than one sign language and read logographic and alphabetic scripts. To reduce this paucity, two descriptive case studies are presented. Written questionnaires, face-to-face interviews, and self-appraisals of language-use…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Case Studies, Deafness, Partial Hearing
Bauman, H-Dirksen L. – Sign Language Studies, 2009
On October 13, 2006, the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department arrested 133 Gallaudet University students, staff, and alumni, the largest number of university arrests in the United States since the 1960s. The arrests occurred amid weeks of building and campus lockdowns, hunger strikes, a sprawling tent city, rallies, and a two…
Descriptors: Deafness, Governing Boards, College Presidents, Higher Education
Cooper, Sheryl B.; Reisman, Joel I.; Watson, Douglas – American Annals of the Deaf, 2008
Surveys of sign language programs in institutions of higher education in the United States, conducted in 1994 and 2004, are compared to reveal changes over time. Data are presented concerning the institutional environment of programs, program administrators, and instructors. Institutions examined in 2004 were on average 5 years older than those…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sign Language, Intellectual Disciplines, Institutional Environment

Hayes, J. Laurence; Dilka, Karen L. – Special Services in the Schools, 1994
Provides a current example of recent legislation that promotes the instruction of American Sign Language in public schools and/or at the college/university level for foreign or second-language credit. Addresses the impact and planning necessary to meet the challenge of this "new" old language in the schools. (RJM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Sign Language, Credits, Curriculum Development

Caccamise, Frank; Ayers, Robert; Finch, Karen; Mitchell, Marilyn – American Annals of the Deaf, 1997
This 1978 article presents general principles of sign selection, standardization and development, guidelines for sign selection, standardization, and development based on the American Sign Language lexicon, and a process for selection, evaluation, development, recording of vocabulary, signs, and fingerspelled words. The selection of…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education

Jones, Thomas W. – 1997
This study investigated the communication preferences of graduate students in the teacher education program in Deaf Education at Gallaudet University (District of Columbia). Thirty-seven (of 76) full-time students in the Master's program completed a questionnaire. Forty percent of the students were deaf or hard of hearing and 49 percent were…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Classroom Communication, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
Belka, Robert W. – 2000
This article explores some of the complexities of the question as to whether or not American Sign Language (ASL) is a foreign language. It reviews the historical oppression of the deaf, the development of ASL and its defining value to proponents of deaf culture, mentions other language systems (including foreign sign systems) used by the…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Curriculum Development, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education