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Peer reviewedClarke, Sue; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1986
Total communication procedures were used with three severely mentally retarded children (mental ages 2 to 4) to examine the effects of receptive speech on the acquisition and maintenance of manual signing. Signs corresponding to known words were generally acquired faster and retained better than signs corresponding to unknown words. (Author/JW)
Descriptors: Children, Expressive Language, Manual Communication, Receptive Language
Peer reviewedHatfield, Nancy; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
To assess competency in American Sign Language (ASL) and manually coded English (MCE), 219 National Technical Institute for the Deaf students, judged to be skilled signers, viewed videotaped stories, one in ASL and one in MCE, followed by true/false questions in the same language as the story. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Hearing Impairments, Higher Education, Manual Communication
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
Peer reviewedNotoya, Masako; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1994
Acquisition of passive and active vocabulary in sign and oral language was analyzed in 2 children congenitally deaf, through age 54 months. Acquisition of sign occurred more quickly than oral language. Production of active nouns, function words, and "wh" question words in sign was equivalent to that of hearing peers, and was later transferred to…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Deafness, Developmental Stages, Expressive Language
Peer reviewedMoores, Donald F.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1973
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, Exceptional Child Research, Finger Spelling
Peer reviewedSmeets, P. M.; Striefel, S. – Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 1976
A transfer of stimulus control procedure was used to teach a 14-year-old retarded deaf girl manual signing skills. (CL)
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Expressive Language, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedBeckmeyer, Ted – American Annals of the Deaf, 1976
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, Disabilities, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedHyde, 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
