Recently added articles from American Annals of the Deaf:

Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces

Apr 01, 2007; Moores, Donald ... In our field, as elsewhere, there is always a temptation to oversimplify things and to see matters in dichotomous black-white, either-or frameworks. The reality, of course, is much more complex even when we consider the impact of such separate forces as national and international organizations ...

NEAR-VERBATIM CAPTIONING VERSUS EDITED CAPTIONING FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING: A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF EFFECTS ON COMPREHENSION

Apr 01, 2007; Ward, Phillip; Wang, Ye; Paul, Peter; Loeterman, Mardi ... THE STUDY assessed the effects of near-verbatim captioning versus edited captioning on a comprehension task performed by 15 children, ages 7-11 years, who were deaf or hard of hearing. The children's animated television series Arthur was chosen as the content for the study. The re- searchers ...

MEETING GLOBAL DEAF PEERS, VISITING IDEAL DEAF PLACES: DEAF WAYS OF EDUCATION LEADING TO EMPOWERMENT, AN EXPLORATORY CASE STUDY

Apr 01, 2007; De Clerck, Goedele A M ... IN A FLEMISH CASE STUDY, deaf role models revealed a moment of awakening, indicated by the Flemish sign WAKE-UP. Contact with deaf cultural rhetoric made them wake up, and deconstruct and reconstruct their lives, a process represented by a circle of deaf empowerment. Flemish deaf leaders ...

A TOOL FOR MONITORING THE DEVELOPMENT OF WRITTEN ENGLISH: T-UNIT ANALYSIS USING THE SAWL

Apr 01, 2007; White, Alfred H ... THE ARTICLE reports the development of the Structural Analysis of Written Language (SAWL), an instrument designed for use by classroom teachers in objectively documenting the ability of children to write in English. The SAWL allows teachers to use T-unit analysis to quantitatively assess ...

READING AGAINST ALL ODDS: A PILOT STUDY OF TWO DEAF STUDENTS WITH DYSLEXIA

Apr 01, 2007; Enns, Charlotte; Lafond, Lori Dustan ... LEARNING TO READ and write is a challenge for most deaf children due to their limited experiences with, and access to, spoken language. In the case of deaf students who have difficulty processing visual print, literacy becomes an even greater challenge. The study piloted an intervention ...

IDENTIFICATION, ASSESSMENT, AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES

Apr 01, 2007; Soukup, Monica; Feinstein, Sheryl ... THE PURPOSE of the study was to ascertain methods of identification used by teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing who were working with students with learning disabilities, the training these teachers had received, and the accommodations and modifications they had implemented for their ...

SOCIAL RECOGNITION, PARTICIPATION, AND THE DYNAMIC BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENT AND PERSONAL FACTORS OF STUDENTS WITH DEAFBLINDNESS

Apr 01, 2007; Möller, Kerstin; Danermark, Berth ... THE STUDY describes environmental and personal factors that, from the student perspective, impede participation in education in secondary upper schools by students with postlingual deafblindness. The discussion is framed by the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health ....

THE EFFICACY OF ASL/ENGLISH BILINGUAL EDUCATION: CONSIDERING PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Apr 01, 2007; DeLana, Melissa; Gentry, Mary Anne; Andrews, Jean ... THE STUDY investigated the efficacy and viability of American Sign Language (ASL)/English bilingual education for public schools serving deaf and hard of hearing children. Prior research related to ASL/English bilingual education is reviewed. Quantitative data related to the reading ...