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Speech, Vocabulary, and the Education of Children Using Cochlear Implants: Oral or Total Communication?.
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Connor, Carol McDonald; Hieber, Sara; Arts, H. Alexander; Zwolan, Teresa A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2000
This study examined the relationship between the teaching method, oral or total communication, used at children's schools and children's consonant-production accuracy and vocabulary development over time. The children (N=147) had used cochlear implants for between 6 months and 10 years. Results indicated a complex relationship among children's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cochlear Implants, Deafness
A Study of the Ability of Day-Class Deaf Adolescents to Comprehend Factual Information Using Four Communication Modalities
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Newell, William – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
Twenty-eight deaf adolescents enrolled in a day-class program for the hearing impaired were administered a battery of four short factual stories using oral, manual, simultaneous, and interpreted modalities of communication. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comprehension, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
Assessing Language and/or System Preferences of Spanish-Deaf Preschoolers.
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Luetke-Stahlman, B.; Weiner, Frederick F. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1982
Three Spanish deaf preschoolers were taught receptive vocabulary in oral English, English sign-mix, oral Spanish, Spanish sign-mix, and sign alone. Subject one learned best using sign alone. Subject two performed best using oral Spanish or sign alone. Subject three seemed to profit from sign, Spanish sign-mix, or oral English. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Acquisition, Oral Communication Method, Preschool Education
Communication Instruction with Hearing-Impaired College Students Within the Manual/Simultaneous Communication Department, NTID
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Penna, Karen L.; Caccamise, Frank – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
The goal of the Manual/Simultaneous Communication Department (M/SCD) at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is to assist deaf students in developing communication skills. (Author)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Communication Skills, Deafness, Finger Spelling
Veteran Teachers of Children Who Are Deaf/Hard of Hearing Describe Language Instructional Practices: Implications for Teacher Preparation.
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Easterbrooks, Susan R. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2001
Eight focus groups of teachers of students who are deaf/hard of hearing identified language instructional practices associated with either oral communication or total communication. This generated a set of 79 statements of practices that were then verified by program supervisors using a Likert-type scale. Teachers' identified practices differed…
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Focus Groups
The Education of Deaf Children: The Possible Place of Finger Spelling and Signing.
Department of Education and Science, London (England). – 1968
The results of study in England and Wales to determine the place of fingerspelling and signing in deaf education are reported. The scope and procedure of the inquiry, its context, the meaning of terms, the linguistic quality methods of communication, variable factors likely to affect the attainments of children with impaired hearing, and present…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Education, Exceptional Child Education
PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORAL EDUCATION OF THE DEAF. VOLUME I. (WASHINGTON, D.C., NOVEMBER 1, 1967).
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1967
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORAL EDUCATION OF THE DEAF ARE THE WRITTEN RECORD OF A CONFERENCE HELD AT CLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND LEXINGTON SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF IN JUNE 1967. VOLUME I CONTAINS THE PAPERS FROM FIVE PLENARY SESSIONS AND SEVERAL SECTIONAL MEETINGS PRESENTED BY REPRESENTATIVES FROM 16 COUNTRIES. SUBJECTS…
Descriptors: Administration, Audiology, Audiometric Tests, Auditory Training