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Attitudes of Deaf Adults Regarding Preferred Sign Language Systems Used in the Classroom with Deaf Students
- American Annals of the Deaf
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 132, Number 4,October 1987
- pp. 251-255
- 10.1353/aad.2012.0635
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A questionnaire survey was conducted to assess attitudes of deaf adults toward sign language systems used in schools. The majority of 50 respondents supported American Sign Language and Manually Coded English-Pidgin with some reservations. The respondents also projected major concerns for meeting the needs of the individual deaf child and the need for deaf adult involvement in deciding educational policies for hearing-impaired students.