Assessing Health Literacy in Deaf American Sign Language Users

A Tutor For Teaching English As A Second Language For Deaf Users Of American Sign Language

In this paper we introduce a computerassisted writing tool for deaf users of American Sign Language (ASL). The novel aspect of this system (under development) is that it views the task faced by these writers as one of second language acquisition. We indicate how this a ects the system design and the system's correction and explanation strategies, and present our methodology for modeling the sec...

Routes to short-term memory indexing: lessons from deaf native users of American Sign Language.

Models of working memory (WM) have been instrumental in understanding foundational cognitive processes and sources of individual differences. However, current models cannot conclusively explain the consistent group differences between deaf signers and hearing speakers on a number of short-term memory (STM) tasks. Here we take the perspective that these results are not due to a temporal order-pr...

Deaf Sign Language Users, Health Inequities, and Public Health: Opportunity for Social Justice

Deaf sign language users, health inequities, and public health: opportunity for social justice. Introduction Inequities in health and health care have increasingly become an area for concern and action for public health professionals, clinicians, policy makers, and communities. Research has documented inequities in the prevalence of chronic diseases of subpopulations defined by education , inco...

Child Modifiability as a Predictor of Language Abilities in Deaf Children Who Use American Sign Language.

PURPOSE This research explored the use of dynamic assessment (DA) for language-learning abilities in signing deaf children from deaf and hearing families. METHOD Thirty-seven deaf children, aged 6 to 11 years, were identified as either stronger (n = 26) or weaker (n = 11) language learners according to teacher or speech-language pathologist report. All children received 2 scripted, mediated l...

Sign Language Development in Young Deaf Children