Deaf Children's Recognition of Written Words [electronic resource] : Is Fingerspelling the Basis? / Rachel Mayberry and Gloria S. Waters.

To test three hypotheses concerning fingerspelling's contribution to word recognition, 24 deaf children in three age groups (7-9, 10-12, and 13-15 years) were administered a vocabulary recognition test and a lexical decision task. Subjects' performance was measured by the number of words a...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Mayberry, Rachel
Other Authors:	Waters, Gloria S.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1987.
Subjects:	Deafness. Elementary Secondary Education. Finger Spelling. Sight Vocabulary. Sign Language. Word Recognition.