Info on Research on Writing by deaf people

[Mary Arliskas]

I will keep you posted, that is if I ever get out of proposal hell.

Thanks for the reply!!

At 11:21 AM 11/2/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Lon Kuntze and I were working on a project headed by Liz Charlson that had
>collected writing samples from "successful" deaf high school students who
>were from various backgrounds. We ended-up not including the writing sample
>data in our report because we could not develop a rubric or even clear
>descriptions for what differentiated the writing samples of the various
>types (e.g., orally raised, native ASL, signer of hearing parents) of
>students; they were just different. What was really interesting to me was
>the fact that the samples Lon judged to be the best writing were not the
>ones I as a hearing person judged to be the best writing samples. I would
>love to see any work on the topic.
>
>Robin L. Bird, Ph.D.
>Program Evaluator
>Department of Research & Evaluation
>Oakland Unified School District
>rlbird at ousd.k12.ca.us
>
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>> From: Mary Arliskas <mearlis at FLASH.NET>
>> To: SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
>> Subject:
>> Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 1:35 PM
>>
>> It has been a while since I have been to the list.
>>
>> I have a question for all you researchers out there...
>>
>> I have been wrestling with a thesis topic for the better part of a year.
>I
>> know what I am really interested in - written language performance of
>deaf
>> children in oral only and signing only programs. Why does it seem that
>all
>> of the research on written language with deaf children compares the deaf
>> children to hearing age or ability mates? As much as I'd like to think I
>am
>> the only person to wonder about this query, I know I must either be
>missing
>> something or be focusing on a moot question.
>>
>> Some experts have told me that the communication strategy used (i.e.,
>> signed or oral) will have little effect on their language production,
>while
>> others have reported that oral kids will beat the pants off the signing
>> kids in language.
>>
>> So, I look forward to your responses. For now, I am sticking to my idea.
>>
>> Thank you in advance!
>>
>>
>>
>> Mary E. Arliskas
>> Teacher for Deaf/EBD Students
>> Chicago Public Schools
>
>
peace n love,

mary


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