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 fADLvX024637; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:57:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:57:33 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <82837AE54FBAD411AA2400508B5F52411C438C@hobbes.qcc.mass.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: Sue Miller <suem@qcc.mass.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3768] Re: Deaf, communication issues X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Status: O Content-Length: 1149 Lines: 30 -----Original Message----- From: S E Kirk [mailto:S.E.Kirk@durham.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 2:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-LD:3767] Re: Deaf, communication issues In January this year I completed an MA dissertation on psycholinguistic, educational and political aspects of literacy and deafness. It is an area I am extremely interested in. I am particularly against the 'hearing-centred' bias in Deaf education and the 'linear' methods mentioned in the discussion messages on this forum; especially given the success of the bilingual-bicultural approaches of Sweden and Denmark, where Deaf teachers, and thus visuo-spatial, 'non-linear' methodologies, are central to the development of text-based literacy. Does anyone have references for, or knowledge of, Deaf methods of teaching - of moving from Sign to text, rather than from English (etc.) to text?? It seems clear to me that only through the participation, research and expertise of native signing teachers can effective strategies for the teaching of reading/writing be developed... .Is this happening anywhere, does anyone know?? Steve Kirk.
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