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Quigley, Stephen P.; Paul, Peter V. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1984
An examination of research on language and systems used with deaf children concluded that oral English and manually coded English have produced only limited results. The approach advocates the instructional use of American Sign Language and the teaching of English as a second language to deaf children. (Authors/CL)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition
Loux, Donny – 1996
This booklet presents basic issues and recommendations of a Nevada legislative task force on the establishment of courses in American Sign Language (ASL) for credit as a foreign language in the public schools and institutions of higher education. An introductory section, "American Sign Language and Deaf Culture Issues and Answers: A Basic…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Credits, Curriculum Development, 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
Erickson, Marianne – 1991
When evaluating the work of congenitally deaf students whose native language is spatial and semiotic, composition teachers must avoid being what Marjorie Siegel calls "verbocentric," since congenitally deaf students are, in effect, learning to write in a language completely foreign to them in structure, syntax, and grammar. The…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Cued Speech, Deafness, English Instruction