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Deaf Children Creating Written Texts: Contributions of American Sign Language and Signed Forms of English
- American Annals of the Deaf
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 145, Number 5, December 2000
- pp. 394-403
- 10.1353/aad.2012.0135
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The objectives of this descriptive study were to investigate the ways in which American Sign Language (ASL) and English-based sign allow for comprehension of text content, and to determine how these two avenues of communication might mediate the process of reconstructing "signed meaning" in a written text. The authors argue that comprehensible input in a visual mode is possible in either ASL or English-based sign. They further claim that English-based signing may be an effective means of bridging the gap between inner speech and written text.