Training Literacy Skills through Sign Language.

The literacy skills of deaf children generally lag behind those of their hearing peers. The mechanisms of reading in deaf individuals are only just beginning to be unraveled but it seems that native language skills play an important role. In this study 12 deaf pupils (six in grades 1-2 and six in gr...

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Published in:Deafness & Education International Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 8 - 19
Main Authors: Rudner, Mary, Andin, Josefine, Rönnberg, Jerker, Heimann, Mikael, Hermansson, Anders, Nelson, Keith, Tjus, Tomas
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2015
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