Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id fADJ6F020027; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:06:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:06:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3BF16CD5.9ECD5EAB@san-marcos.isd.tenet.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Vicki Alford <vicki.alford@san-marcos.isd.tenet.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3765] Re: Deaf, communication issues X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-type: multipart/alternative; X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) Status: O Content-Length: 2124 Lines: 47 --Boundary_(ID_Grm00nryuUe6Zn8sQIjblg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT KathleenBombach@aol.com wrote: > Spoken language is also linear, so hearing people have a basic > congruence between speaking and reading. Deaf people do not. So > reading for the deaf is like learning a very, very foreign language, > and actual cognitive structures for deaf people have to be changed for > written language to make sense--an extreme form of 'code switching'. It can be, but doesn't have to be. That is why our Regional Day School for the Deaf has adopted a communication philosophy that supports using Signing Exact English. This sign system provides students with an almost "exact" representation of English "through the air." I have used it for 9 years and believe it is the reason why our students in our program do so well with reading and writing. Our students read above the national norms. Vicki --Boundary_(ID_Grm00nryuUe6Zn8sQIjblg) Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> KathleenBombach@aol.com wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><font face="Arial"><font size=-1> Spoken language is also linear, so hearing people have a basic congruence between speaking and reading. Deaf people do not. So reading for the deaf is like learning a very, very foreign language, and actual cognitive structures for deaf people have to be changed for written language to make sense--an extreme form of 'code switching'.</font></font></blockquote> It can be, but doesn't have to be. That is why our Regional Day School for the Deaf has adopted a communication philosophy that supports using Signing Exact English. This sign system provides students with an almost "exact" representation of English "through the air." I have used it for 9 years and believe it is the reason why our students in our program do so well with reading and writing. Our students read above the national norms. <br>Vicki <br> </html> --Boundary_(ID_Grm00nryuUe6Zn8sQIjblg)--
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