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Direct linkNielsen, Diane Corcoran; Luetke, Barbara; McLean, Meigan; Stryker, Deborah – American Annals of the Deaf, 2016
Research suggests that English-language proficiency is critical if students who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) are to read as their hearing peers. One explanation for the traditionally reported reading achievement plateau when students are D/HH is the inability to hear insalient English morphology. Signing Exact English can provide visual…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Reading Skills, Reading Achievement
Marshall, Chloë R.; Hobsbaum, Angela – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2015
Background: Children who are learning English as an Additional Language (EAL) may start school with smaller vocabularies than their monolingual peers. Given the links between vocabulary and academic achievement, it is important to evaluate interventions that are designed to support vocabulary learning in this group of children. Aims: To evaluate…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Power, Des; Hyde, Merv; Leigh, Greg – American Annals of the Deaf, 2008
A sample of elementary school-and high school-age deaf students in special education programs in the Australian state of Queensland using Australasian Signed English (ASE) took the Test of Syntactic Abilities (Quigley, Steinkamp, Power, & Jones, 1978) and wrote a story in response to a wordless picture sequence. Several analyses of the…
Descriptors: Manual Communication, Syntax, Written Language, Deafness
Gonter, Martha A.; Hoemann, H. – 1981
Language tests were administered by videotape to 27 deaf children taught to sign English. The tests, one in manual English (ME) and the other in American Sign Language (ASL) each included twelve grammatical distinctions: two aspects of adjectival modification (opposition and ordering), two types of pluralization (is/are and indicative in ME, dual…
Descriptors: Age Differences, American Sign Language, Communication Skills, Deafness
Peer reviewedAbraham, Suzanne; Stoker, Richard – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1988
A survey of 182 educational programs for hearing-impaired children and youth identified those test instruments most widely used to assess language at infant, preschool, primary, and secondary levels. Also analyzed were communication modes and manual systems used in testing, difficulties encountered in assessing hearing-impaired children, and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Language Tests
Download full textWITHROW, FRANK B. – 1966
THE ILLINOIS COMMUNICATION SCALE WAS DEVELOPED ON 16 MM COLOR FILM TO ASSESS THE RECEPTIVE COMMUNICATION ABILITIES OF DEAF CHILDREN BETWEEN 6 AND 14 YEARS. FORMS WERE CONSTRUCTED TO MEASURE (1) AUDITORY RECEPTION, (2) LIPREADING AND LISTENING, (3) LIPREADING ONLY, (4) FINGERSPELLING, AND (5) LANGUAGE OF SIGNS. EACH FORM HAD 5 SUBPARTS (1)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Auditory Evaluation, Children, Communication Skills
Ragosta, Marjorie; Nelson, Catherine – 1986
The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) was administered to 26 hearing impaired college students, in order to test the assumption that the English-language deficiencies of hearing impaired students are similar to those of foreign students. The students were attending Gallaudet College's School of Preparatory Studies and were identified…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, College Entrance Examinations, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
