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Mounty, Judith L.; Pucci, Concetta T.; Harmon, Kristen C. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2014
A primary tenet underlying American Sign Language/English bilingual education for deaf students is that early access to a visual language, developed in conjunction with language planning principles, provides a foundation for literacy in English. The goal of this study is to obtain an emic perspective on bilingual deaf readers transitioning from…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, English, Oral Communication Method
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Binet, Alfred; Simon, Theodore – American Annals of the Deaf, 1997
Reprints an historical study that investigated the value of the oral method in teaching speech to 40 children with deafness. Results indicated the oral method did not permit participants to enter into relations with strangers and did not allow them to have a consecutive conversation with their relatives. Additional research is recommended. (CR)
Descriptors: Children, Deafness, Educational History, Educational Research
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Luetke-Stahlman, B.; Weiner, Frederick F. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1982
Three Spanish deaf preschoolers were taught receptive vocabulary in oral English, English sign-mix, oral Spanish, Spanish sign-mix, and sign alone. Subject one learned best using sign alone. Subject two performed best using oral Spanish or sign alone. Subject three seemed to profit from sign, Spanish sign-mix, or oral English. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Acquisition, Oral Communication Method, Preschool Education
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Ferreri, Giulio – American Annals of the Deaf, 1997
This reprint of an article from 1909 responds to a study that found the oral method was not effective in teaching speech to students with deafness. It charges that the investigation was unscientific and driven by economic influences. (CR)
Descriptors: Children, Deafness, Economic Factors, Educational History
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Easterbrooks, Susan R. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2001
Eight focus groups of teachers of students who are deaf/hard of hearing identified language instructional practices associated with either oral communication or total communication. This generated a set of 79 statements of practices that were then verified by program supervisors using a Likert-type scale. Teachers' identified practices differed…
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Focus Groups
Lederer, Joseph – 1968
Repercussions of "Language and Education of the Deaf" by Herbert R. Kohl are examined as a followup. The original study described the education and achievement of profoundly deaf individuals in America, presented a critique of the literature that had grown around the problems of the deaf, and focused on the relative failure of deaf education.…
Descriptors: Children, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, Exceptional Child Research
Department of Education and Science, London (England). – 1968
The results of study in England and Wales to determine the place of fingerspelling and signing in deaf education are reported. The scope and procedure of the inquiry, its context, the meaning of terms, the linguistic quality methods of communication, variable factors likely to affect the attainments of children with impaired hearing, and present…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Education, Exceptional Child Education
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1967
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORAL EDUCATION OF THE DEAF ARE THE WRITTEN RECORD OF A CONFERENCE HELD AT CLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND LEXINGTON SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF IN JUNE 1967. VOLUME I CONTAINS THE PAPERS FROM FIVE PLENARY SESSIONS AND SEVERAL SECTIONAL MEETINGS PRESENTED BY REPRESENTATIVES FROM 16 COUNTRIES. SUBJECTS…
Descriptors: Administration, Audiology, Audiometric Tests, Auditory Training