Dissertation Posted, Statistical Studies, Saudi Arabia and Jordan

[Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa]

Dan,

Signwriting is also used at Kasterlinden, a deaf school in Brussels.

I have seen the vast difference in the use of VGT between the older
children who haven't used signwriting and the younger children who
have used signwriting but what I have known of is that no research
study was taken on this.

Shane

On 26/09/2007, Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I did notice is that nothing is said about the signed proficiency of
> either the students or the instructors... only audiometric information on
> the students. The school's Total Communication ("comprehensive style")
> policy implies sign supported speech, based on the hearing teachers of the
> deaf I've seen in Jordan (the only school I know of with Deaf instructors is
> the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf in Salt). I also wonder what the effect
> of the extra two month's instruction  (=two months indirect instruction on
> the structure of signed language) had on the experimental group. Also, it
> would have been nice to have a third group which used sign language without
> sign writing ( i.e., videotaped testing materials, etc.).
>
> Perhaps some other time :-)
>
> -Dan.
>
>
> On 9/26/07, Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa <
> shane.gilchrist.oheorpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Valerie,
> >
> > The Holy Land Institute for the Deaf in Jordan do use sign language -
> > its run by a Br Andrew and they have employed several deaf teachers
> > and they have used Deaf volunteers from England several times who are
> > advocates of bilingualism.
> >
> > Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa
> > Ulster Institute for the Deaf
> >
> > On 26/09/2007, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
> > > Everyone, Bernadet, Gerard -
> > > I just received a telephone call from Saudi Arabia, from Dr.
> > > AbuShaira, who is now teaching at King Saud University, in Riyadh,
> > > and he tells me that both schools, where both his SignWriting
> > > experiments were held (Saudi Arabia in 2002 and Jordan in 2007) are
> > > both schools that use Sign Language daily. All the students that took
> > > part in his experiments were already signers...so none of them were
> > > new to signing. The only thing that was new, was SignWriting, which
> > > was taught to the experimental group, while the control group did not
> > > learn SignWriting. The group that learned SignWriting, in both
> > > schools, did better on their exams overall. So the better results do
> > > point to SignWriting, according to Dr. AbuShaira...
> > >
> > > I asked him if the school system in Jordan was oral, and he told me
> > > that there are some schools that are, of course, but the classes he
> > > chose to do his experiments in, were ones that use Sign Language
> > > daily....
> > >
> > > Val ;-)
> > >
> > > Valerie Sutton
> > > Sutton at SignWriting.org
> > > www.SignWriting.org
> > >
> > > -------------
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sep 25, 2007, at 3:18 AM, Bernadet Hendriks wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Gerard,
> > > >
> > > > I must admist I didn't read through the entire PhD (certainly not
> > > > because most of it is still in Arabic and it would take me a lot of
> > > > time trying to read through it), but I skimmed through the English
> > > > translation. However I know from my experience of 6 years in Jordan
> > > > working with the Deaf that these al-Amal schools don't normally use
> > > > sign language...so my remark is more than just speculation. Also,
> > > > I'm not saying sign writing might not have been useful (I think it
> > > > could be very useful and I tried myself to teach it to a few Deaf
> > > > people in Jordan), but I am saying that I doubt these better
> > > > results stem from the use of sign writing only. If sign writing was
> > > > used, that means sign language was used, and that in itself may
> > > > have caused better results in the students. In the school where I
> > > > worked in Jordan bilingual education was introduced as a test and
> > > > this caused significantly better results in the reading skills of
> > > > students...without the use of sign writing.
> > > >
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > Bernadet
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