Teaching Writing Skills To Deaf Students. Many deaf students are visual learners and benefit tremendously from using graphic organizers as part of their writing. In school deaf and hard of hearing students d hh are often exposed to american sign language asl while also developing literacy skills in english.
Moving forward attention needs to be paid not only to the teaching of writing and those approaches and strategies that are supportive of better outcomes but to the reasons why so many deaf students have struggled. Asl does not have a written form but is a fully accessible language to the d hh through which it is possible to mediate understanding draw on prior experiences and engage critical thinking and reasoning allington johnston 2002. The educational professionals need to select a suitable strategy for the education of writing skills to young deaf and hard of hearing students as teaching writing is often associated with the presence of challenges due to its dependency on the spoken language giddens 2009.
In school deaf and hard of hearing students d hh are often exposed to american sign language asl while also developing literacy skills in english.
Grasping aids may be helpful for some students with motor impairments and a textured surface can be used to make writing activities more meaningful. Which words and communicative responses does the student already use. Teaching writing as a process means instructing students to work through the same stages of composing that. On the basis of the available theoretical and empirical evidence deficits in language seem to be at the root of these challenges.
