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Why Can't the Deaf Read? Comments on Asking the Wrong Question
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Gormley, Kathleen A.; Franzen, Anne McGill – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
Semantic information rather than syntax should be emphasized in teaching the deaf to read. (PHR)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Learning Modalities
Some Possible Causes of Syntactic Deficits in the Congenitally Deaf English User
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Scholes, Robert J.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
One hundred eighty-eight congenitally deaf high school students were given sentence comprehension tests in order to determine which if any of four possible hypotheses--developmental lag, the method of sentence presentation, teaching methodology and acquisitional modality--explained the observed syntactic deficit in the deaf language user. (PHR)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Congenital Impairments, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
Video Tapes in the Classroom
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Shuey, Herbert E. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1976
The television department at Kansas State School for the Deaf developed video tapes and other aids for a group of vocational education students, fifteen- 20-year-olds, as a means of teaching basic vocational skills. (IM)
Descriptors: Deafness, Exceptional Child Education, Hearing Impairments, Job Skills
Iconicity and Sign Vocabulary Acquisition.
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Beykirch, Hugh L.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1990
Twenty-eight hearing college students were trained on 30 signs from American Sign Language that had been classified as iconic, opaque, or abstract. Students learned and retained iconic signs better than opaque or abstract. A videotaped presentation mode produced greater consistency in scores than computer-assisted instruction. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Computer Assisted Instruction, Hearing Impairments, Higher Education