DEAF 406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Iceberg, Carol Padden, Euclidean Geometry
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Homework Reminders
- Writing Assignment #1
o Due next Wednesday, October 4th
o Due at 3:30
o Turn into Canvas in PDF Format
- Verification of School Appointments
o Due next Wednesday, October 4th
o Due in class
o Print what you have to show you are working on it
- Exam #1
o On October 11th
o Reserving the ASL Lab from 2:30-3:30 and from 6-7
o No class this day, but HAVE to go to an event from 4-6… more details will be put
on Canvas
Lecture: Literacy Development of the Deaf Learner
- The reading level of a typical Deaf student at the school-leaving age of 18 years is at:
o The 3rd to 4th grade level
▪ Which means the same as
• The level of an average 8 to 9 year old hearing student
- 30% of Deaf students leave school functionally illiterate, as compared to less than 1% of
their hearing peers
- On average, Deaf students gain only 1.5 years in their reading skills between the ages of
8 and 18
- Only 10% of Deaf students read at 7.5 grade level or better
- English Phonology, English Morphology, English Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
- Writing Sample of a Deaf Learner (Age 10) – Knight and the Dagon
o Once upon a time a big castle with lonely boy name is Knight and other is a stone
stuck at hat where dagon live. One day dagon rad book about “How fight
Knight.” Knight think and get book about cook and he finish it with it so he
go to made a stone sivler body. He fix a round with sivler hammer and he
strew on it and he pow on it and he get his horse and his knife and dagon has no
supply to fight but his nose have fire and then Knight say 1…2…3… go both of
us run toward than to back and both fell down and Knight only go to library and
read.
- Patton O. Tabors (2001) emphasizes that Deaf children, “begin literacy learning with
language and that enhancing their language development by providing them with rich
and engaging language environment during the first 5 years is the best way to ensure
their success as readers [and] writers.”
- Deaf children “do not seem to be able to learn a first language through print
(although they are able to learn a second language through prints – considering
English speakers who develop reading knowledge of German, or ASL signers who
develop a reading knowledge of English without ever having spoken the language)”
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