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Stanzione, Christopher M.; Perez, Susan M.; Lederberg, Amy R. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2013
To address the paucity of current research on the development of creativity in deaf students, and to extend existing research to adolescents, the present study investigated divergent thinking, a method of assessing creativity, in both deaf and hearing adolescents. We assessed divergent thinking in two domains, figural and verbal, while also…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Sign Language, Creativity, Deafness
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Lederberg, Amy R.; Miller, Elizabeth M.; Easterbrooks, Susan R.; Connor, Carol McDonald – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2014
The present study evaluated the efficacy of a new preschool early literacy intervention created specifically for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children with functional hearing. Teachers implemented "Foundations for Literacy" with 25 DHH children in 2 schools (intervention group). One school used only spoken language, and the other used…
Descriptors: Deafness, Partial Hearing, Children, Control Groups
Lederberg, Amy R.; Branum-Martin, Lee; Webb, Mi-young; Schick, Brenda; Antia, Shirin; Easterbrooks, Susan R.; Connor, Carol MacDonald – Grantee Submission, 2019
Better understanding of the mechanisms underlying early reading skills can lead to improved interventions. Hence, the purpose of this study was to examine multivariate associations among reading, language, spoken phonological awareness, and fingerspelling abilities for three groups of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) beginning readers: those who…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Finger Spelling, Kindergarten, Grade 1