American Sign Language and early literacy : a model parent-child program /

The usual definition of the term "literacy" generally corresponds with mastering the reading and writing of a spoken language. This narrow scope often engenders unsubstantiated claims that print literacy alone leads to, among other so-called higher-order thinking skills, logical and ration...

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Main Author: Snoddon, Kristin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2012
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • ASL and early intervention
  • Discourse and counterdiscourse
  • Research as praxis
  • ASL as resource
  • A deaf cultural space
  • Facilitating emergent ASL literacy
  • Conclusion.