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| Preschool Deaf Children’s Use of Signed Language During Writing Events | ||
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| Cheri
Lynn Williams University of Cincinnati |
This research examined young deaf children’s social interaction during free-choice writing time in their preschool classroom. The study examined the ways in which five deaf children used signed language as they wrote. Results of the study indicated that the children used both signed language and nonverbal expression to engage in representational, directive, interactional, personal, and heuristic use of language to support their writing endeavors. The study raises the question of whether nonverbal expression might also be salient among emergent writers who are not deaf. | |
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| JLR v. 31 no. 2 1999 pp. 183–212 |
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