Tags:Bilingualism, Deaf or hard of hearing, Language and literacy and Sign Language
Abstract:
The narrative production abilities of 32 deaf children between third- to sixth-grade from two American Sign Language (ASL) bilingual schools will be presented. The participants were exposed to two narrative conditions of wordless picture books, one was produced in ASL and the other was conducted in Simultaneous Communication. Participants then retold the narrative. The findings will discuss the quality of the narrative structure and whether they followed the same communication modality of the initial exposure.