Hello Pam,

I cannot answer your question, but I would like to point out the difficulty for a profoundly deaf person to learn to read and write at all, because the basis of our writing system is a phonemic encoding, and the deaf person cannot hear the sounds.  Thus they have to recognise whole words and remember their meaning, without any mnemonic value.   Considering the difficulties, it is hardly surprising that the average reading age for an adult deaf person is 11 years.

So, if the deaf student is managing to write with a decent vocabulary, and grammatically, it is a considerable achievement.

Cheers from Chiswick,

John

John Nissen
Cloudworld Ltd - http://www.cloudworld.co.uk
maker of the assistive reader, WordAloud.
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Pam Bryan 
  To: 'The Learning Disabilities Discussion List' 
  Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 4:01 PM
  Subject: [LearningDisabilities] American Sign Language


  Hello,

   

  I am looking for resource materials for one of our teachers.  She is working with a deaf student who uses American Sign Language to communicate.  As you may know this language is different in that they do not communicate in full sentences as we know it.  So the challenge for the instructor is to teach the student to write in complete sentences.  Please let me know of any materials you have used that might make this process easier.

   

  Thank you!

   

  Pam Bryan

  ABE Special Projects Coordinator

  and Regional Technical Assistant for 

  Literacy West Virginia

  RESA III

  501 22nd Street

  Dunbar, WV  25064

  1-800-257-3723 ext. 212

  FAX:  766-7915
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