Fw: Info on Research on Writing by deaf people

[Robin L. Bird]

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> From: Judith L. Mounty <JLMOUNTY at gallua.gallaudet.edu>
> To: rlbird at ousd.k12.ca.us
> Subject: Re: Info on Research on Writing by deaf people
> Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 5:23 AM
>
>
> Robin,
>
> I don't have an easy "reply to all" command in this particular email
system
> so please share this with Lon and the list for me.
>
> I know exactly what you mean in terms of the challenge of developing a
> scoring rubric and clear descriptions. I'm not sure why one is dependent
on
> the other, however and if you ever return to this project, please let me
> know, maybe we can work together on the rubric. As for the descriptions,
I
> wonder if it would have helped to work with linguists to develop
> descriptions based on presence of patterns relating to extension of rules

> for Universal Core Grammar (from non-ASL reared students), versus
patterns
> of ASL interference with English (for ASL-reared students)? Not an easy
> task, but I think this approach has merit.
>
> Judy Mounty Ed.D.
> Director
> Center for ASL Literacy
> Gallaudet University
> email: judy.mounty at gallaudet.edu
>
>
> From: IN%"rlbird at ousd.k12.ca.us"  "Robin L. Bird"  2-NOV-1998 14:35:14.76
> To:   IN%"SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA"
> CC:   IN%"kuntze at leland.stanford.edu"
> Subj: RE: Info on Research on Writing by deaf people
>
> 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
>
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> From: "Robin L. Bird" <rlbird at ousd.k12.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: Info on Research on Writing by deaf people
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