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Happy Hands: The Effect of ASL on Hearing Children's Literacy
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Implications and Conclusions:
"this study's findings confirm those of previous studies that show enriching hearing children's kindergarten instruction with sign language increases their receptive English vocabulary to a statistically significant degree"
Procedure
Results
- used ASL from day one
- Started with signs and spoken English at same time (not quite SimCom)
- Slowly replaced spoken words with ASL; eventually full ASL
- Students quickly learned signs and taught parents/caregivers what they knew
- Receptive: improved (101.9-115.9)
- 2 years age equivalency difference)
- Expressive: 104 (average)
- ASL- 95% correct
- Reading-readiness: 50.6 (compared to 33.2)
DIAGNOSTIC EVALS
(used for results)
Receptive English Vocab- PPVT
Expressive English Vocab- EVT
Sign Language Eval.- SABSL
Reading Readiness level- RROS
Study Replicated in US
- All hearing classroom, only ASL used.
- 21 students, 7 boys 14 girls.
- English first language
Goals to test:
- Receptive English vocab
- Expressive English vocab
- ASL ability
- Reading-readiness level.