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A Clear Treat!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 2, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Monikowski, C. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Psychotherapy: A Guided Tour Down the Yellow Brick Road of LifeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 2, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Kritzer, K. L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Inside the "Lifeworlds" of Deaf AdolescentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 2, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Robinson, J. B. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

What We Know, Do Not Know and Need To Know About Deafness and CognitionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 2, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Gaustad, M. G. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Investigating the Technical Adequacy of Curriculum-Based Measurement in Written Expression for Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of HearingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated the technical adequacy of curriculum-based measures of written expression (CBM-W) in terms of writing prompts and scoring methods for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Twenty-two students at the secondary school-level completed 3-min essays within two weeks, which were scored for nine existing and alternative curriculum-based measurement (CBM) scoring methods. The technical features of the nine scoring methods were examined for interrater reliability, alternate-form reliability, and criterion-related validity. The existing CBM scoring method—number of correct minus incorrect word sequences&md...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 2, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Cheng, S.-F., Rose, S. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

The Experiences of Cypriot Hearing Adults With Deaf Parents in Family, School, and SocietyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study has implications for Deaf parents, and professionals working, planning, and implementing social, psychological, and educational support services to Deaf-parented families. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 2, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Hadjikakou, K., Christodoulou, D., Hadjidemetri, E., Konidari, M., Nicolaou, N. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Language Achievement in Children Who Received Cochlear Implants Between 1 and 2 Years of Age: Group Trends and Individual PatternsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined receptive and expressive vocabulary and grammar achievement of French-speaking children (n = 27) who received a cochlear implant (CI) between the age of 1 and 2. Standardized measures of language achievement were administered and the language levels attained by children with CIs were compared with that of the normative sample of same-age hearing peers for each measure. As a group, children exhibited language levels within normal limits in all standardized language measures. Examination of individual patterns revealed four different language profiles ranging from normal language levels in all domains to ...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 2, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Duchesne, L., Sutton, A., Bergeron, F. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Auditory, Visual, and Auditory-Visual Perception of Emotions by Individuals With Cochlear Implants, Hearing Aids, and Normal HearingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study evaluated the benefits of cochlear implant (CI) with regard to emotion perception of participants differing in their age of implantation, in comparison to hearing aid users and adolescents with normal hearing (NH). Emotion perception was examined by having the participants identify happiness, anger, surprise, sadness, fear, and disgust. The emotional content was placed upon the same neutral sentence. The stimuli were presented in auditory, visual, and combined auditory–visual modes. The results revealed better auditory identification by the participants with NH in comparison to all groups of participants w...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 2, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Most, T., Aviner, C. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

The Role of Sign Phonology and Iconicity During Sign Processing: The Case of Deaf ChildrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
To investigate the influence of sign phonology and iconicity during sign processing in deaf children, the roles of these sign features were examined using an experimental sign–picture verification paradigm. Participants had to make decisions about sign–picture pairs, manipulated according to phonological sign features (i.e., hand shape, movement, and location) and iconic sign features (i.e., transparent depiction of meaning or not). We found that phonologically related sign pairs resulted in relatively longer response latencies and more errors whereas iconic sign pairs resulted in relatively shorter response la...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 2, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Ormel, E., Hermans, D., Knoors, H., Verhoeven, L. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

The Design and Validation of a Parent-Report Questionnaire for Assessing the Characteristics and Quality of Early Intervention Over TimeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article concerns a parent-report repeat questionnaire to evaluate the quality of multiprofessional early intervention following early identification of deafness. It discusses the rationale for the design of the instrument, its theoretical underpinnings, its psychometric properties, and its usability. Results for the validity and reliability of the instrument are based on completion by 82 parents. The questionnaire is divided into four sections. "The description of the structure of professional services" demonstrated good face and content validity; the "content of intervention scale" yielded high internal consistency (...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 2, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Young, A., Gascon-Ramos, M., Campbell, M., Bamford, J. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Barely Started and Already Left Behind: A Descriptive Analysis of the Mathematics Ability Demonstrated by Young Deaf ChildrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined young deaf children's early informal/formal mathematical knowledge as measured by the Test of Early Mathematics Ability (TEMA-3). Findings from this study suggest that prior to the onset of formal schooling, young deaf children might already demonstrate evidence of academic delays. Of these 28 participants (4–6 years of age), for whom data were analyzed, none received a score on the TEMA-3, indicating above-"average" ability according to normative ranking. More than half of participants received scores substantially below average with 11 participants receiving scores a year or more behind normativ...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 2, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Kritzer, K. L. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

ErratumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 9, 2009 Category: Audiology Tags: Erratum Source Type: journals

The Unspoken StoryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 9, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Hardy-Braz, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

In Their Own WordsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 9, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Bowen, S. K. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Lend-Me 50 Dollar, Don't-Mind?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 9, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Poor, G. S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Examining the Hearing LineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 9, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Searls, J. M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Telehealth and the Deaf: A Comparison StudyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article evaluated the efficacy of telehealth in teaching psychoeducational objectives, with special emphasis given to its application to the deaf population. Results indicate that telehealth can be regarded as an efficacious and cost-effective option in delivering health care to the deaf population. Participants also indicated satisfaction with the telehealth technology. The use of printed transcripts for educational purposes is encouraged given the significant findings in this article. The findings also have implications for the literature on single-session interventions. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 9, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Wilson, J. A. B., Wells, M. G. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Spoken Language Scores of Children Using Cochlear Implants Compared to Hearing Age-Mates at School EntryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated three questions: Is it realistic to expect age-appropriate spoken language skills in children with cochlear implants (CIs) who received auditory–oral intervention during the preschool years? What characteristics predict successful spoken language development in this population? Are children with CIs more proficient in some areas of language than others? We analyzed language skills of 153 children with CIs as measured by standardized tests. These children (mean age = 5 years and 10 months) attended programs in the United States (N = 39) that used an auditory–oral educational approach. Age...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 9, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Geers, A. E., Moog, J. S., Biedenstein, J., Brenner, C., Hayes, H. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Suprasegmental Characteristics of Speech Produced during Simultaneous Communication by Inexperienced SignersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated suprasegmental variables of syllable stress and intonation contours in contextual speech produced during simultaneous communication (SC) by inexperienced signers. Ten hearing inexperienced sign language users were recorded under SC and speech-alone (SA) conditions speaking a set of sentences containing stressed versus unstressed versions of the same syllables and a set of sentences containing interrogative versus declarative versions of the same words. Results indicated longer sentence durations for SC than SA for all speech materials. Vowel duration and fundamental frequency differences between str...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 9, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Whitehead, R. L., Metz, D. E., Girardi, E., Irwin, J., Krigsman, A., Swanson, C., MacKenzie, D., Schiavetti, N. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

The Nature and Efficiency of the Word Reading Strategies of Orally Raised Deaf StudentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The main objective of this study was to unveil similarities and differences in the word reading strategies of orally raised individuals with prelingual deafness and hearing individuals. Relevant data were gathered by a computerized research paradigm asking participants to make rapid same/different judgments for words. There were three distinct study conditions: (a) a visual condition manipulating the visual–perceptional properties of the target word pairs, (b) a phonological condition manipulating their phonological properties, and (c) a control condition. Participants were 31 high school and postgraduate students wi...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 9, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Miller, P. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Predicting Academic Success Among Deaf College StudentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
For both practical and theoretical reasons, educators and educational researchers seek to determine predictors of academic success for students at different levels and from different populations. Studies involving hearing students at the postsecondary level have documented significant predictors of success relating to various demographic factors, school experience, and prior academic attainment. Studies involving deaf and hard-of-hearing students have focused primarily on younger students and variables such as degree of hearing loss, use of cochlear implants, educational placement, and communication factors—although ...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 9, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Convertino, C. M., Marschark, M., Sapere, P., Sarchet, T., Zupan, M. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Toward an Equal Level of Educational Attainment Between Deaf and Hearing People in Sweden?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article compares 2,144 people born between 1941 and 1980 who attended a special education program for the deaf and 100,000 randomly chosen individuals from the total population born between 1941 and 1980. Data consist of registered information about the individuals in the year 2005. Results demonstrate that the deaf population has a lower level of educational attainment than the reference population. Women have a higher level of educational attainment than men, and younger people have a higher level than older people in each population. Neither sex, age category, nor immigrant background accounts for the variance in t...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 9, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Rydberg, E., Gellerstedt, L. C., Danermark, B. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Academic Status and Progress of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in General Education ClassroomsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The study participants were 197 deaf or hard-of-hearing students with mild to profound hearing loss who attended general education classes for 2 or more hours per day. We obtained scores on standardized achievement tests of math, reading, and language/writing, and standardized teacher's ratings of academic competence annually, for 5 years, together with other demographic and communication data. Results on standardized achievement tests indicated that, over the 5-year period, 63%–79% of students scored in the average or above-average range in math, 48%–68% in reading, and 55%–76% in language/writing. The s...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 9, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Antia, S. D., Jones, P. B., Reed, S., Kreimeyer, K. H. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

An Intelligibly Expounded Journey into Signed Languages and their Origins: Fox, M. (2007). Talking Hands. What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster. 354 pages. Hardcover. $27.00.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 16, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Tellings, A. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

A Range of Considerations and Perspectives on Interpreting: Metzger, M. & Fleetwood, E. (Eds.). (2007). Translation, Sociolinguistic, and Consumer Issues in Interpreting. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. 226 pages. Hardcover.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 16, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Madden, M. J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

"Well, It Is Complicated ...": Edwards, L. & Crocker, S. (Eds.). (2008). Psychological Processes in Deaf Children With Complex Needs: An Evidence-Based Practical Guide. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. 204 pages. $34.95.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 16, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Brice, P. J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Language : Gesture :: Evolution : Origin: Armstrong, D. F., & Wilcox, S. E. (2007). The Gestural Origin of Language. New York: Oxford University Press. $22.95 Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-19-516348-3.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 16, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Rosen, R. S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Congenitally Deafblind Children and Cochlear Implants: Effects on CommunicationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There has been much research conducted demonstrating the positive benefits of cochlear implantation (CI) in children who are deaf. Research on CI in children who are both deaf and blind, however, is lacking. The purpose of this article is to present a study of five congenitally deafblind children who received cochlear implants between 2.2 and 4.2 years of age. Ratings of video observations were used to measure the children's early communication development with and without the use of their cochlear implants. In addition, parental interviews were used to assess the benefits parents perceived regarding their children's cochl...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 16, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Dammeyer, J. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Deaf Children's Informal Knowledge of Multiplicative ReasoningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Multiplicative reasoning is required in different contexts in mathematics: it is necessary to understand the concept of multipart units, involved in learning place value and measurement, and also to solve multiplication and division problems. Measures of hearing children's multiplicative reasoning at school entry are reliable and specific predictors of their mathematics achievement in school. An analysis of deaf children's informal multiplicative reasoning showed that deaf children under-perform in comparison to the hearing cohorts in their first two years of school. However, a brief training study, which significantly imp...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 16, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Nunes, T., Bryant, P., Burman, D., Bell, D., Evans, D., Hallett, D. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Correlates of Psychosocial Adjustment in Deaf Adolescents With and Without Cochlear Implants: A Preliminary InvestigationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The number of children who have received cochlear implants (CIs) has increased dramatically in the past two decades. In view of potential concerns about their psychosocial adjustment, our aim was to assess the effect of implants on the adolescents’ psychosocial functioning among a group of 57 deaf adolescents with and without CIs, using published and validated measures completed by the adolescents themselves, their parents, and teachers. Adolescents with CI tended to be more hearing acculturated, whereas those without CI tended to be more Deaf acculturated. Despite some differences in background characteristics betwe...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 16, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Leigh, I. W., Maxwell-McCaw, D., Bat-Chava, Y., Christiansen, J. B. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Eye Gaze During Comprehension of American Sign Language by Native and Beginning SignersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An eye-tracking experiment investigated where deaf native signers (N = 9) and hearing beginning signers (N = 10) look while comprehending a short narrative and a spatial description in American Sign Language produced live by a fluent signer. Both groups fixated primarily on the signer's face (more than 80% of the time) but differed with respect to fixation location. Beginning signers fixated on or near the signer's mouth, perhaps to better perceive English mouthing, whereas native signers tended to fixate on or near the eyes. Beginning signers shifted gaze away from the signer's face more frequently than native signers, bu...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 16, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Emmorey, K., Thompson, R., Colvin, R. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Theory of Mind and Language in Children With Cochlear ImplantsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Thirty children with cochlear implants (CI children), age range 3–12 years, and 30 children with normal hearing (NH children), age range 4–6 years, were tested on theory of mind and language measures. The CI children showed little to no delay on either theory of mind, relative to the NH children, or spoken language, relative to hearing norms. The CI children showed a slightly atypical sequence of acquisition of theory of mind concepts. The CI children's theory of mind performance was associated with general syntactic proficiency more than measures of complement syntax, and with time since implantation more than...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 16, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Remmel, E., Peters, K. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Spoken Language Development in Oral Preschool Children With Permanent Childhood DeafnessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article documented spoken language outcomes for preschool children with hearing loss and examined the relationships between language abilities and characteristics of children such as degree of hearing loss, cognitive abilities, age at entry to early intervention, and parent involvement in children's intervention programs. Participants were evaluated using a combination of the Child Development Inventory, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, and the Preschool Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals depending on their age at the time of assessment. Maternal education, cognitive ability, and family involvement were ...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 16, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Sarant, J. Z., Holt, C. M., Dowell, R. C., Rickards, F. W., Blamey, P. J. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Visual Input Enhancement via Essay Coding Results in Deaf Learners' Long-Term Retention of Improved English Grammatical KnowledgeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study explored the efficacy of visual input enhancement, specifically essay enhancement, for facilitating deaf college students' improvement in English grammatical knowledge. Results documented students' significant improvement immediately after a 10-week instructional intervention, a replication of recent research. Additionally, the results of delayed assessment documented students' significant retention of that improvement five and a half months beyond the instructional intervention period. Essay enhancement served to highlight, via a coding procedure, students' successful and unsuccessful production of discourse-re...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 16, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Berent, G. P., Kelly, R. R., Schmitz, K. L., Kenney, P. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Computer-Based Exercises for Learning to Read and Spell by Deaf ChildrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There is a surprising lack of systematic research evaluating the effects of reading exercises for young deaf children. Therefore, for this article, two computer-based exercises were developed and learning effects were determined by posttests. One (spelling oriented) exercise was to select the correct word among three orthographically similar alternatives that corresponds to a drawing or a sign (digital video). The other (meaning oriented) exercise was to select the correct sign or picture among three alternatives that corresponds to a written word. Eleven deaf Dutch children with a mean age of 7 years 10 months participate...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 16, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Reitsma, P. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Alternate Assessment Use With Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis of Portfolio, Checklists, and Out-of-Level Test FormatsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The purpose of this paper is to present findings on alternate assessments for students who are deaf or hard of hearing (SDHH). Drawn from the results of the "Second National Survey of Assessments and Accommodations for Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing," this study investigated three alternate assessment formats: portfolio, checklists, and out-of-level testing. Analysis includes descriptive data of alternate assessment use across all three formats, qualitative analyses of teacher perspectives, and an exploratory logistic regression analysis on predictors of alternate assessment use. This exploratory analysis looks a...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 16, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Cawthon, S. W., Wurtz, K. A. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Phonological Representations in Deaf Children: Rethinking the "Functional Equivalence" HypothesisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We examined the effects of perceptual similarity between stimuli on deaf childrens' ability to make judgments about the phonological similarity between words at 3 levels of linguistic structure (syllable, rhyme, and phoneme). Manipulation of stimulus contrasts (acoustic, visual/orthographic, tactile/motoric) allowed a finer-grained estimate of the sources of knowledge that deaf individuals use to make similarity judgments between words. The results showed that the ability to make syllable-, rhyme-, and phoneme-level judgments was not tied to "phonological" facilitation when these conditions are contrasted. These findings a...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 16, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: McQuarrie, L., Parrila, R. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Creating Inclusive Learning Environments: Difficulties and Opportunities Within the New Political EthosEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 9, 2008 Category: Audiology Authors: Freire, S. Tags: End Note Source Type: journals

Social Construction of American Sign Language--English InterpretersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Instructors in 5 American Sign Language—English Interpreter Programs and 4 Deaf Studies Programs in Canada were interviewed and asked to discuss their experiences as educators. Within a qualitative research paradigm, their comments were grouped into a number of categories tied to the social construction of American Sign Language—English interpreters, such as learners’ age and education and the characteristics of good citizens within the Deaf community. According to the participants, younger students were adept at language acquisition, whereas older learners more readily understood the purpose of lessons. ...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 9, 2008 Category: Audiology Authors: McDermid, C. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

The Use of Visual Feedback During Signing: Evidence From Signers With Impaired VisionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The role of visual feedback during the production of American Sign Language was investigated by comparing the size of signing space during conversations and narrative monologues for normally sighted signers, signers with tunnel vision due to Usher syndrome, and functionally blind signers. The interlocutor for all groups was a normally sighted deaf person. Signers with tunnel vision produced a greater proportion of signs near the face than blind and normally sighted signers, who did not differ from each other. Both groups of visually impaired signers produced signs within a smaller signing space for conversations than for m...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 9, 2008 Category: Audiology Authors: Emmorey, K., Korpics, F., Petronio, K. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

The Appropriateness of the NC State-Mandated Reading Competency Test for Deaf Students as a Criterion for High School GraduationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Deaf students consistently score lower on standardized measures of reading comprehension than their hearing peers. Most of the studies that have been conducted to explain this phenomenon have focused on variables within the reader, and important differences have been found between deaf and hearing readers. More recently, in the face of increasingly high-stakes consequences, researchers are looking "outside" the reader, at the tests themselves, to determine whether there are fairness issues for special populations, such as deaf students. The study reported here, the first of its kind with deaf students, examines the North C...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 9, 2008 Category: Audiology Authors: Lollis, J., LaSasso, C. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Lexical and Grammatical Abilities in Deaf Italian Preschoolers: The Role of Duration of Formal Language ExperienceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We evaluated language development in deaf Italian preschoolers with hearing parents, taking into account the duration of formal language experience (i.e., the time elapsed since wearing a hearing aid and beginning language education) and different methods of language education. Twenty deaf children were matched with 20 hearing children for age and with another 20 hearing children for duration of experience. Deaf children showed a significant delay in both vocabulary and grammar when compared to same-age hearing children yet a similar development compared to hearing children matched for duration of formal language experienc...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 9, 2008 Category: Audiology Authors: Rinaldi, P., Caselli, C. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Word-Learning Abilities in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Preschoolers: Effect of Lexicon Size and Language ModalityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children's ability to rapidly learn novel words through direct reference and through novel mapping (i.e., inferring that a novel word refers to a novel object) was examined. Ninety-eight DHH children, ranging from 27 to 82 months old, drawn from 12 schools in five states participated. In two tasks that differed in how reference was established, word-learning abilities were measured by children's ability to learn novel words after only three exposures. Three levels of word-learning abilities were identified. Twelve children did not rapidly learn novel words. Thirty-six children learned novel w...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 9, 2008 Category: Audiology Authors: Lederberg, A. R., Spencer, P. E. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Literacy Skills in Children With Cochlear Implants: The Importance of Early Oral Language and Joint Storybook ReadingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The goal of this study was to longitudinally examine relationships between early factors (child and mother) that may influence children's phonological awareness and reading skills 3 years later in a group of young children with cochlear implants (N = 16). Mothers and children were videotaped during two storybook interactions, and children's oral language skills were assessed using the "Reynell Developmental Language Scales, third edition." Three years later, phonological awareness, reading skills, and language skills were assessed using the "Phonological Awareness Test," the "Woodcock–Johnson-III Diagnostic Reading B...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 9, 2008 Category: Audiology Authors: DesJardin, J. L., Ambrose, S. E., Eisenberg, L. S. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Evaluating Phonological Processing Skills in Children With Prelingual Deafness Who Use Cochlear ImplantsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated the phonological processing skills of 29 children with prelingual, profound hearing loss with 4 years of cochlear implant experience. Results were group matched with regard to word-reading ability and mother’s educational level with the performance of 29 hearing children. Results revealed that it is possible to obtain a valid measure of phonological processing (PP) skills in children using CIs. They could complete rhyming tasks and were able to complete sound-based tasks using standard test materials provided by a commercial test distributor. The CI children completed tasks measuring PP, but t...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 9, 2008 Category: Audiology Authors: Spencer, L. J., Tomblin, J. B. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Striving for Beyond either/orEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 11, 2008 Category: Audiology Authors: Porter, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

The Deaf History ReaderEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 11, 2008 Category: Audiology Authors: Abbate, L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Learning via Direct and Mediated Instruction by Deaf StudentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Four experiments investigated classroom learning by deaf college students receiving lectures from instructors signing for themselves or using interpreters. Deaf students’ prior content knowledge, scores on postlecture assessments of content learning, and gain scores were compared to those of hearing classmates. Consistent with prior research, deaf students, on average, came into and left the classroom with less content knowledge than hearing peers, and use of simultaneous communication (sign and speech together) and American Sign Language (ASL) apparently were equally effective for deaf students’ learning of th...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 11, 2008 Category: Audiology Authors: Marschark, M., Sapere, P., Convertino, C., Pelz, J. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

Language Ability and Verbal and Nonverbal Executive Functioning in Deaf Students Communicating in Spoken EnglishEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The internal use of language during problem solving is considered to play a key role in executive functioning. This role provides a means for self-reflection and self-questioning during the formation of rules and plans and a capacity to control and monitor behavior during problem-solving activity. Given that increasingly sophisticated language is required for effective executive functioning as an individual matures, it is likely that students with poor language abilities will have difficulties performing complex problem-solving tasks. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between language ability and ve...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 11, 2008 Category: Audiology Authors: Remine, M. D., Care, E., Brown, P. M. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals

The Relationship Between the Reading and Signing Skills of Deaf Children in Bilingual Education ProgramsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper reports on one experiment in which we investigated the relationship between reading and signing skills. We administered a vocabulary task and a story comprehension task in Sign Language of the Netherlands and in written Dutch to a group of 87 deaf children from bilingual education programs. We found a strong and positive correlation between the scores obtained in the sign vocabulary task and the reading vocabulary task when age, short-term memory scores, and nonverbal intelligence scores were controlled for. In addition, a correlation was observed between the scores in the story comprehension tasks in Sign Langu...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 11, 2008 Category: Audiology Authors: Hermans, D., Knoors, H., Ormel, E., Verhoeven, L. Tags: Empirical Articles Source Type: journals