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Baker-Ramos, Leslie K. – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2017
The purpose of this teacher inquiry is to explore the effects of signing and gesturing on the expressive language development of non-verbal children. The first phase of my inquiry begins with the observations of several non-verbal students with various etiologies in three different educational settings. The focus of these observations is to…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, American Sign Language, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
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Petronio, Karen; Dively, Valerie – Sign Language Studies, 2006
In American Sign Language (ASL), a receiver watches the signer and receives language visually. In contrast, when using tactile ASL, a variety of ASL, the deaf-blind receiver receives language by placing a hand on top of the signer's hand. In the study described in this article we compared the functions and frequency of the signs YES and #NO in…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Nonverbal Communication, Tactual Perception, Stimuli