Achieving literacy with Deaf children: an examination of American Sign Language story structure and the effects of storytelling on language acquisition
Dates
- Creation: 1996
Creator
- Supalla, Samuel James, 1957- (Person)
Summary
This presentation covers an ongoing study on the role of storytelling as a medium for facilitating the needed ASL acquisition with Deaf children. The development of literacy will be discussed based on T-unit length and story coherence in the signed narrative as well as the effects of intervention.
Extent
258.41 Megabytes (mp4)
Language
Sign Languages
English
General Note
This material was digitized as part of a CLIR Hidden Collections grant: "Sculptures in the Air: An Accessible Online Video Repository of the American Sign Language (ASL) Poetry and Literature Collections at the RIT/NTID Deaf Studies Archive (RIT/NTID DSA) in Rochester, NY." Original VHS recordings were transferred to mp4 format, captioned, and voiced, by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Production Services department.
Processing Information
Dr. Karen Christie, Professor Emerita of NTID, provided accurate sign language transcriptions of this video; voicing from ASL into English was provided by Miriam Lerner, performing arts interpreter.
Repository Details
Part of the RIT Archives Repository
