Hi Pam,

I attended a session at the TRLD conference about teaching students who are 
deaf/hearing-impaired.  The presenter was Susan Bigman from Fairfax Co. 
Public Schools in VA.  I don't have a lot of experience teaching students 
who are deaf, but I can at least share my notes from her session with you. 
So here you go:
1.  Use assistive technology.
2.  Use a multisensory approach to instruction, not just an interpreter. 
(And you DO need an interpreter.)
3. "Boardmaker" can print words with graphics; it's color-coded for 
kinesthetic grammar practice.
4.  The Attainmnet Company makes "Show Me Spelling," which has picture clues 
instead of auditory.
5.  TIMO makes software with lifelike, animated people (avatars) that sign. 
It's designed to be a vocabulary builder and a story builder.
6.  "Writing with Symbols 2000" lets you write using pictures, and it's 
geared more for adults than Pixwriter
7.  "Co-Writer" is a good tool for students who are deaf.
8.  Intellitools has an overlay-maker for writing sentences.
9.  Contact your state's school for the deaf for more ideas.

Hope something there is helpful,
Patti White
Disabilities Project Manager
Arkansas Adult Learning Resource Center
prwhite at madisoncounty.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Pam Bryan
To: 'The Learning Disabilities Discussion List'
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 10:01 AM
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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