title: Explicitly teaching English through the air to students who are deaf or hard of hearing.
abstract: The effects of the Language for Learning curriculum (Engelmann & Osborne, 1999) on through-the-air (i.e., signed and/or spoken) English skills for students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) were examined by means of a single-subject, concurrent-multiple-probes-across-participants design. Four 11-year-old participants varied in auditory access, IQ, and age at amplification and/or cochlear implantation. All students showed increased accuracy of through-the-air English skills after the intervention (i.e., 15-20 lessons) and maintained these skills when assessed 1 week and 1 month later. The findings yielded some promising results indicating that a Direct Instruction curriculum may be an efficacious way to teach morphology and syntax to DHH students.
authors: Jessica G
authors: JG
authors: Bennett
authors: Ralph
authors: R
authors: Gardner
authors: Ross
authors: R
authors: Leighner
authors: Shannon
authors: S
authors: Clancy
authors: Joshua
authors: J
authors: Garner
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002657:Child Development; D003479:Curriculum; D060345:Education of Persons with Hearing Disabilities / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D012813:Sign Language; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors