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Total Communication -- Fraud or Reality?
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Drumm, Philip R. – Volta Review, 1972
A deaf adult argues that total communication as a combination of signs and speech is a fraud from the realistic point of view of a born deaf adult living in a hearing/speaking world. (GW)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Disabilities, Exceptional Child Education, Hearing Impairments
A Study of the Ability of Day-Class Deaf Adolescents to Comprehend Factual Information Using Four Communication Modalities
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Newell, William – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
Twenty-eight deaf adolescents enrolled in a day-class program for the hearing impaired were administered a battery of four short factual stories using oral, manual, simultaneous, and interpreted modalities of communication. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comprehension, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
Mind Over Mouth: A Rationale for Total Communication
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Vernon, McCay – Volta Review, 1972
The author presents a rationale for a total communication approach (involving speech, speechreading, amplification, writing, sign language, and fingerspelling) in educational programs for deaf persons. (GW)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Communication Skills, Educational Methods, Exceptional Child Education
Controversy within Sign Language.
Vernon, McCay – A.C.E.H.I. Journal, 1987
A review of problems with using such manual communication systems as cued speech, fingerspelling, Signed or Manual English, American Sign Language, and Pidgin Sign provides a rationale for using a combination of American Sign Language and Pidgin Sign and a few markers from Signed English for a Total Communication system. (CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Communication Skills, Cued Speech, Deafness
The Effects of Total Communication and Oralism on Deaf Third-Grade "Rubella" Students
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Chasen, Barbara; Zuckerman, William – American Annals of the Deaf, 1976
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication Skills, Deafness, Elementary Education
Analysis of the Communication Skills of Young Deaf Adults over a 2 Year Interval of Technical Training.
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Conklin, John M.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1980
Speech, speechreading, and manual reception skills of 78 deaf students were evaluated over a 2-year interval of residency at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) in order to determine the relative stability of these skills within an integrated environment which stresses the use of amplification and oral-aural instruction. (Author)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Educational Research, Environmental Influences
The Interactive Video-Questionnaire: A New Technology for Interviewing Deaf Persons.
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Lipton, Douglas S.; Goldstein, Marjorie F.; Fahnbulleh, F. Wellington; Gertz, Eugenie N. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1996
Describes the development of the Interactive Video Questionnaire for interviewing deaf persons. The questionnaire uses videodisc and bar-code readers to present survey questions on screen in American Sign Language, Signed English, speech reading, or as English subtitles. (DB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Captions, Data Collection, Deafness
The Receptive Communication Abilities of Deaf Students under Oral, Manual, and Combined Methods.
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Hyde, M. B.; Power, D. J. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1992
The comprehension of 30 severely and profoundly deaf students (ages 10 to 17) was evaluated under 11 communication conditions involving individual and combined presentations of lipreading, listening, fingerspelling, and signed English. Severely deaf students scored higher than profoundly deaf students under all but one condition, and all students…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Communication Skills, Comprehension
The Education of Deaf Children: The Possible Place of Finger Spelling and Signing.
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