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Webster, Jenny – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2022
This paper is about attitudes toward sign languages. The paper presents an idea to help make sign language surveys better in the future. In 2018, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) published a sign language survey and a spoken language survey together for the first time. This was very important to show…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Sign Language, Surveys, Test Construction
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Fellinger, Johannes; Linzner, Doris; Holzinger, Daniel; Dall, Magdalena; Fellinger, Maria; Fogler, Jason – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2020
People with intellectual disabilities who are deaf face obstacles participating in social environments that do not take into account their need for accessible visual communication. In the present case series, we describe the development of the adaptive skills profiles of eight participants in a fully inclusive therapeutic living community,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Adults, Deafness, Residential Programs
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Szarkowski, Amy; Brice, Patrick J. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2016
Hearing parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children face unique challenges and stressors, the understanding of which has been the focus of numerous studies; yet, relatively little is known about their positive experiences. Using a qualitative purposive sampling design, interviews were conducted with 11 hearing parents (8 mothers, 3 fathers)…
Descriptors: Parents, Parenting Styles, Children, Deafness
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Johnston, Trevor – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2012
Measures of lexical frequency presuppose the existence of corpora, but true machine-readable corpora of sign languages (SLs) are only now being created. Lexical frequency ratings for SLs are needed because there has been a heavy reliance on the interpretation of results of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic experiments in the SL research…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages), Grammar
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Knoors, Harry; Marschark, Marc – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2012
For over 25 years in some countries and more recently in others, bilingual education involving sign language and the written/spoken vernacular has been considered an essential educational intervention for deaf children. With the recent growth in universal newborn hearing screening and technological advances such as digital hearing aids and…
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Planning, Speech, Sign Language
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Haug, Tobias – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2011
There is a current need for reliable and valid test instruments in different countries in order to monitor deaf children's sign language acquisition. However, very few tests are commercially available that offer strong evidence for their psychometric properties. A German Sign Language (DGS) test focusing on linguistic structures that are acquired…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Sign Language, Deafness, Language Tests