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Evaluating The Sign Language Phonology Of Sight Words Used To Support Deaf /Hard Of Hearing Students' Literacy Development In Idioma De Señas De Nicaragua, Julie A. Delkamiller
Evaluating The Sign Language Phonology Of Sight Words Used To Support Deaf /Hard Of Hearing Students' Literacy Development In Idioma De Señas De Nicaragua, Julie A. Delkamiller
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Over the past 30-years linguists have been witnessing the birth and evolution of a language, Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua, in Nicaragua, and have initiated and documented to date the syntax and grammar of this new language. The purpose of this naturalistic comparative exploratory field study was to evaluate preprimer and primer Dolch sight words and sign language frequency and phonology—location, handshape, and movement—used to support deaf/hard of hearing students’ literacy development in Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua compared to American Sign Language. The research focused on the word and sign frequency and phonology or individual components of a Nicaraguan …