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The Language Experience Approach: Its Use with Young Hearing-Impaired Students
- American Annals of the Deaf
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 133, Number 3, July 1988
- pp. 223-225
- 10.1353/aad.2012.0782
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Language experience has proven to be an effective approach to reading for young children. The present three-month study describes the observed effects of using this method of instruction with kindergarten and first grade hearing-impaired students. The language experience approach encouraged growth in vocabulary, reading and writing skills as well as in self confidence and self esteem.