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Assessing the Efficacy of an Academic Hearing Peer Tutor for a Profoundly Deaf Student
- American Annals of the Deaf
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 139, Number 4, October 1994
- pp. 415-419
- 10.1353/aad.2012.0332
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This study assessed the efficacy of using a hearing peer tutor to provide math instruction for a profoundly deaf sixth-grade girl. Instruction was provided for twenty minutes each day. A changing criterion design was employed to measure the tutee's progress across four math objectives she had not previously mastered. The peer tutoring intervention was highly successful, with the tutee meeting the criterion of 70 percent accuracy for three consecutive days for each of the four curriculum objectives after only a brief period of intervention. Peer tutoring is discussed as a potentially useful vehicle for mainstreaming deaf children.