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Woodward, James; Allen, Thomas – 1986
A study examined English grammatical characteristics used in the signing of teachers of hearing-impaired students, using a diglossic continuum between American Sign Language (ASL) and English. Scalogram analysis or implicational scaling, a traditional tool in variation theory useful for analyzing samples where there are a small number of tokens…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Peer reviewedWoodward, James; Allen, Thomas – Sign Language Studies, 1993
Data from 81 hard-of-hearing and 130 deaf teachers were used to compare the medical/pathological and the sociocultural models of deafness. Differences found between deaf and hard-of-hearing teachers support the sociocultural model of deafness and indicate that deaf and hard-of-hearing people need to be grouped and considered separately for…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Models
