Access to Postsecondary Education through Sign Language Interpreting
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Access to postsecondary education through sign language interpreting.
Despite the importance of sign language interpreting for many deaf students, there is surprisingly little research concerning its effectiveness in the classroom. The limited research in this area is reviewed, and a new study is presented that included 23 interpreters, 105 deaf students, and 22 hearing students. Students saw two interpreted university-level lectures, each preceded by a test of p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1465-7325
DOI: 10.1093/deafed/eni002