The Benefit of Oral English-Only as Compared with Signed Input to Hearing-Impaired Students
The study compared scores on a literacy battery of hearing-impaired subjects exposed to either an instructional communication system that attempts to completely encode a language (e.g. oral English, Signing Exact English) or to signed systems that incompletely encode spoken English. Students using the completely encoded language tended to perform better. (Author/DB)
Article, 1988