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Hearing impaired adolescents' signed and written expression of locative state relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Donna Kempt  and
Madeline M. Maxwell
Donna Kempt
Affiliation:
The University of Texas, Austin
Madeline M. Maxwell*
Affiliation:
The University of Texas, Austin
*
Madeline M. Maxwell, Department of Speech Communication, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
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Abstract

Hearing impaired adolescents from three schools were asked to produce sentences expressing simple locative state relations. Subjects varied on three hearing levels, two ages, and the use or nonuse of sign language. All subjects wrote English sentences to describe pictures; signers also described pictures in sign. Data were analyzed using chi-square procedures. Errors of noun reversal and pragmatic focus were apparent in 7% of the signed responses and 15% of the written responses. Errors were produced by subjects at each age and hearing level, and by signers and nonsigners as well. Most errors were produced by profoundly hearing impaired signers attending public day school (as compared to residential school). Implications for instruction and for further research are discussed.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 1989 , pp. 67 - 83
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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