Deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals usually face a greater challenge to learn to write than their normal-hearing counterparts. Due to the limitations of traditional research methods focusing on microscopic linguistic features, a holistic characterization of the writing linguistic features of these language users is lacking. This study attempts to fill this gap by adopting the methodology of lin...

iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks go to Jacy, my inspiration, partner, and guide for the duration of this work; to my parents, for simply assuming that I could (and would) do anything I wanted to; to Kathy, for steering me through this process and my college career; and to Lisa, for providing consistent and persistent collaboration. ABSTRACT Deaf students learning English face a unique and daunting ar...

It is important to understand special education and the services being offered to individuals who are deaf in light of research conducted in Pakistan. A brief historical background of special education as well as the educational setting, curriculum and instructional approaches used for deaf students are explained. Moreover, the perception of Pakistani society about deaf people and their social ...

Deaf students struggle to read and write mainly because of restricted access to natural phonological code (Luckner, Sebald, Cooney, Young III, & Muir, 2006). This limits and delays their ability to develop acquisition of vocabulary and effectively reduces literacy opportunities normally available to their hearing counterparts. Without sufficient reading and writing skills, they inadvertently fa...

INTRODUCTION Deaf are not able to communicate with other community members due to hearing impaired. Providing health care for deaf is more complex because of their communication problems. Multimedia tools can provide multiple tangible concepts (movie, subtitles, and sign language) for the deaf and hard of hearing. In this study, identify the priority health needs of deaf students in primary sch...

Most deaf children in the U.S. today (roughly 80 percent) are placed in a mainstream publicschool environment with hearing peers and teachers (Salend, 2001; Schick, Williams, & Bolster, 1999). As deaf children are increasingly being educated in mainstream public school programs, there is a need to assess fully the factors influencing their first and second language acquisition and literacy deve...

This article presents receptive and expressive American Sign Language skills of 85 students, 6 through 22 years of age at a residential school for the deaf using the American Sign Language Receptive Skills Test and the Ozcaliskan Motion Stimuli. Results are presented by ages and indicate that students' receptive skills increased with age and were still developing across this age range. Students...

The study examined how literacy portfolios were used as tools in a college developmental English class in which deaf students assessed their reading comprehension as well as their writing processes and products. The students' reading and writing assignments involved reflective thinking and were grounded in authentic tasks. Immediate feedback was provided. The study was multidimensional, longitu...

This article investigated to what extent age, use of a cochlear implant, parental hearing status, and use of sign in the home determine language of instruction for profoundly deaf children. Categorical data from 8,325 profoundly deaf students from the 2008 Annual Survey of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children and Youth were analyzed using chi-square automated interaction detector, a stepwise analy...