Deaf Children Creating Written Texts: Contributions of American Sign Language and Signed Forms of English
American annals of the deaf2000Vol. 145(5), pp. 394–403
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Abstract
The objectives of this descriptive study were to investigate the ways in which American Sign Language (ASL) and English-based sign allow for comprehension of text content, and to determine how these two avenues of communication might mediate the process of reconstructing "signed meaning" in a written text. The authors argue that comprehensible input in a visual mode is possible in either ASL or English-based sign. They further claim that English-based signing may be an effective means of bridging the gap between inner speech and written text.
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