Reading Ability in Signing Deaf Children

Topics in Language Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 30-46

  Padden, Carol ^a   Ramsey, Claire ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

American Sign Language; Deaf students; Deaf teachers; Fingerspelling; Hearing teachers; Initialized signs; Orthography; Reading; Residential school

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032394671     PISSN: 02718294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00011363-199808000-00005     Document Type: Article

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