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Longitudinal effects of manual English instruction on deaf children’s morphological skills

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Martha Gonter Gaustad
Martha Gonter Gaustad*
Affiliation:
Bowling Green State University, Ohio
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Martha A. Gaustad, Department of Special Education. Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green. OH 43403
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Abstract

This study examined the imitation, comprehension, and production of twelve morphological features by groups of deaf subjects who were instructed through manually coded English. Their performances were compared with those of hearing subjects and also with their own follow-up scores from three years later. Results showed early deficits in the English skills of deaf subjects but steady improvement of scores on all tasks over time. Initially, subjects’ age predicted only imitation performance while time in an MCE program predicted production performance in addition to imitation. But neither age nor time in program was a significant predictor of any performance at the time of follow-up. Implications for intervention with manual English codes are discussed.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 1986 , pp. 101 - 127
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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