Sign language studies · 1992 · 41 citations · 9 references
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Success in teaching deaf pupils to read has not increased in many decades, but new conceptualizations of literacy, clear understanding that deafness is a human condition not a deficit, and recent research on how deaf families accomplish what schools often do not–all point to better ways of introducing deaf children to written language.
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