Dissertation Posted, Statistical Studies, Saudi Arabia and Jordan

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Have you read the paper or is this only speculation ?
Thanks,
     Gerard

On 9/25/07, Bernadet Hendriks <bernie_hendriks at swissmail.org> wrote:
>
>  hmmmm,
>
> I don't want to say sign writing is not useful, but I doubt that the
> results of these studies are thanks to sign writing only. Knowing that the
> al-Amal schools in Jordan do not normally use sign language, it seems to me
> that the fact that students using sign writing produce better results is
> mainly due to the fact that they finally get taught in their own language,
> whereas the control group probably got taught orally or at most in some ad
> hoc form of signed Arabic.
> It does prove that using sign language in Deaf education is
> beneficial....I just wish all the schools in Jordan would come to this
> conclusion.
>
> Bernadet Hendriks
>
>
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