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Deafness & Literacy: Why Can’t Sam Read?
- Sign Language Studies
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 75, Summer 1992
- pp. 97-112
- 10.1353/sls.1992.0028
- Article
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Success in teaching deaf pupils to read has not increased in many decades, but new conceptualizations of literacy, clear understanding that deafness is a human condition not a deficit, and recent research on how deaf families accomplish what schools often do not–all point to better ways of introducing deaf children to written language.