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M B Hyde

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PubMed1996

Teachers' ratings of the communication abilities of their deaf students.

In this study, teachers' ratings of the speech intelligibility and receptive communication ability of 15 severely deaf and 15 profoundly deaf students using five methods of communication were compared with the students' scores on tests of these receptive communication methods. The teachers' ratings generally were lower than the test scores, and examination of the correspondence between ratings and test measures revealed a low level of association between the two. Only the correlation between ratings and test results for fingerspelling had an acceptable level of statistical significance. Teachers' ratings appeared to underestimate students' tested communicative abilities in all communication modes, a situation that could engender self-fulfilling prophecies of poor performance. It would therefore be useful to have relatively quick, reliable, valid procedures available for teachers to assess their students' communication competencies with the various manual and oral components of communication. Several such procedures are suggested.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1992

The receptive communication abilities of deaf students under oral, manual, and combined methods.

Two groups of severely and profoundly deaf students aged 10 to 17 years were tested on their abilities to choose, from a set of four pictures, the one matching a sentence presented on videotape under 11 different communication conditions. The communication conditions involved individual and combined presentations of lipreading, listening, fingerspelling, and signed English. Severely deaf students scored higher than profoundly deaf students under all conditions except those that involved signed English, where the profoundly deaf group scored as high as the severely deaf group. All the students scored higher under conditions that involved audition, including lipreading plus audition, than under audition alone. The discussion of the results highlights methodological problems that made it difficult to interpret some previous studies in this area. Practical implications of the results for both oral education of the deaf and simultaneous communication are also discussed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1991

Teachers' use of simultaneous communication. Effects on the signed and spoken components.

We examined the correspondence between spoken and signed English when used simultaneously by teachers in Australia to determine whether the difficulties reported with other systematic sign systems are also relevant for the Australasian version. The teachers, all experienced in working with deaf students, were found to be more than 90% accurate in reproducing on their hands what they were saying, but at some cost to the oral aspects of the simultaneous communication. We also discuss the implications of the findings for the use of simultaneous communication with deaf students.

Communication Methods, Total↗