Actually I have seen research that deaf persons who read well have 
excellent phonological awareness--including phonemic awareness.   As 
for any reader, it depends on how the student was taught early on as to 
how their later reading will develop. Robin S.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Nissen <jn at cloudworld.co.uk>
To: The Learning Disabilities Discussion List 
<learningdisabilities at nifl.gov>
Cc: Lisa Seeman <lisa at ubaccess.com>; Debbie Hepplewhite 
<debbie at syntheticphonics.com>; New Vision Technology 
<cph.newvision at virgin.net>; david fullerton <mail at accessequality.co.uk>
Sent: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:15:49 -0000
Subject: Re: [LearningDisabilities] American Sign Language

 
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.
Try WordAloud with synthetic phonics:
http://www.cloudworld.co.uk/teaching-synthetic-phonics.htm
Tel: +44 208 742 3170  Fax: +44 208 742 0202
Email: info at cloudworld.co.uk
 

 
----- 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



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