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Sascha Couvee; Loes Wauters; Harry Knoors; Ludo Verhoeven; Eliane Segers – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2025
We investigated relations between kindergarten precursors and second-grade reading skills in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children, and aimed to identify subgroups based on reading skills, in order to explore early signs of later reading delays. DHH children (n = 23, M[subscript age] kindergarten = 6.25) participated from kindergarten-second…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 2, Reading Skills, Deafness
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Hermans, Daan; Ormel, Ellen; Knoors, Harry – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
In this paper, we will describe the theoretical underpinning of many bilingual education programs for deaf children: Cummins' Linguistic Interdependence theory. Then, we will review some of the studies that have been conducted on the relation between reading and signing skills, and discuss how difficult it is to interpret their findings within…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Bilingual Education, Deafness, Bilingual Education Programs
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Mollink, Hannah; Hermans, Daan; Knoors, Harry – Deafness and Education International, 2008
This study examined the effects of using signs in spoken language vocabulary training of hard-of-hearing children. Fourteen hard-of-hearing children participated in the present study. Vocabulary training with the support of signs showed a statistically significant effect in the participants' learning and retention of new spoken language…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Hearing Impairments, Vocabulary
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Wiefferink, C. H.; Spaai, G. W. G.; Uilenburg, N.; Vermeij, B. A. M.; De Raeve, L. – Deafness and Education International, 2008
In the present study, language development of Dutch children with a cochlear implant (CI) in a bilingual educational setting and Flemish children with a CI in a dominantly monolingual educational setting is compared. In addition, we compared the development of spoken language with the development of sign language in Dutch children. Eighteen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Hearing Impairments, Comparative Analysis