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[Theresa B. Smith]

this sounds like a great question but right... identifying all the
relevant variables will be the challenge and will make or break the
quality of the results.

number of kids in the sample with Deaf parents, older sibs, etc.
age at beginning of training
of course hearing status (level) and whether or not present since birth

Theresa B. Smith, Ph.D.
American Sign Language Interpreting School of Seattle (ASLIS)
e-mail:  theresasmith at juno.com

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:11:20 -0600 Mary Arliskas <mearlis at flash.net>
writes:
>At 05:39 PM 10/29/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>One would assume that the "signing" kids would ultimately be the
>>superior group.
>
>Why do you say that? I have read that strict oral kids with highly
>motivated parents and high ses are better (I'd provide a citation, but
>I
>can't quite recall if it was anecdotal or not) what is interesting to
>me is
>the trends in writing correlated with communication strategy.
>
>Of course, what age children are we  talking about?
>
>Well...I was thinking older kids but that makes it harder to control
>extraneous variables. I need as "pure" a sample as I can get. (and I
>am
>open for suggestions :)
>
>>How is the program constructed? These would seem to be the meaningful
>>variables.
>
>Yes, yes, you are so right. You sound like my thesis chairperson :).
>I have some "kinks" to work out. I am still searching for the meat of
>the
>report. thanks for the reply!!
>
>>
>>
>peace n love,
>
>mary
>
>
>                                once in a while
>                          you can get shown the light
>                          in the strangest of places
>                           if you look at it right
>

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