International perspectives about literacy and deaf students is an
uncharted intellectual landscape. Much of the literacy research in
deaf education is conducted in English-speaking ...countries-primarily
the United States-but 90% of deaf children live outside the U.S.
and learn various signed and spoken languages, as well as diverse
writing systems. Many of these children face significant
educational challenges. In order to improve the literacy outcomes
of deaf students around the world, it is imperative to study how
children are using their local signed and spoken languages along
with Deaf culture to learn to read and write. This volume fills a
void in the field by providing a global view of recent theoretical
and applied research on literacy education for deaf learners.
Literacy and Deaf Education: Toward a Global Understanding
is organized by region and country, with the first part discussing
writing systems that use alphabetic scripts, and the second part
focusing on countries that use non-alphabetic scripts. Some
examples of the wide spectrum of topics covered include
communication methodologies, curriculum, bilingual education,
reading interventions, script diversity, and sociocultural
development, including Deaf cultural developments. The contributors
provide the results from literacy projects in fifteen countries and
regions. This volume aims to widen the knowledge base, familiarize
others in the field with these initiatives, and improve global
understandings and outcomes of literacy teaching and learning in
deaf education from birth to high school. Signed chapter summaries
are available on the Gallaudet University Press YouTube channel.
Tribute to Ye Wang Andrews, Jean F.
American annals of the deaf,
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Odprti dostop
Andrews offers a tribute to the late Ye Wang. Wang was an international reading scholar conducting studies in the US, the Philippines, Korea, and mainland China. She had a gentle leadership style. ...After running a reading clinic and training teachers in the Midwest, she returned to New York to prepare doctoral-level researchers. Hartman et al say Wang was an extraordinary human being: kind, quietly confident, and wise beyond measure. As the Director of our Deaf and Hard of Hearing program at Teachers College, Columbia University, she led cutting-edge research while expertly guiding dozens of doctoral and masters students to their degrees.
Dr. Kathee Mangan Christensen, indefatigable ally and reformer in deaf education, passed away on December 8, 2021, in San Diego, CA. Kathee (called KC in the Deaf community) was not audiologically ...deaf. Yet throughout her life, as a teacher, teacher educator, and writer/researcher, she participated in social, political, and linguistic facets of the Deaf community promoting diversity, inclusion, and Deaf/hearing collaborative partnerships in the United States, Mexico, and Taiwan.
Background
Intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring has been for decades a cornerstone of traumatic brain injury (TBI) management. Nevertheless, in recent years, its usefulness has been questioned in ...several reports. A group of neurosurgeons and neurointensivists met to openly discuss, and provide consensus on, practical applications of ICP in severe adult TBI.
Methods
A consensus conference was held in Milan on October 5, 2013, putting together neurosurgeons and intensivists with recognized expertise in treatment of TBI. Four topics have been selected and addressed in pro-con presentations: 1) ICP indications in diffuse brain injury, 2) cerebral contusions, 3) secondary decompressive craniectomy (DC), and 4) after evacuation of intracranial traumatic hematomas. The participants were asked to elaborate on the existing published evidence (without a systematic review) and their personal clinical experience. Based on the presentations and discussions of the conference, some drafts were circulated among the attendants. After remarks and further contributions were collected, a final document was approved by the participants.
Summary and conclusions
The group made the following recommendations: 1) in comatose TBI patients, in case of normal computed tomography (CT) scan, there is no indication for ICP monitoring; 2) ICP monitoring is indicated in comatose TBI patients with cerebral contusions in whom the interruption of sedation to check neurological status is dangerous and when the clinical examination is not completely reliable. The probe should be positioned on the side of the larger contusion; 3) ICP monitoring is generally recommended following a secondary DC in order to assess the effectiveness of DC in terms of ICP control and guide further therapy; 4) ICP monitoring after evacuation of an acute supratentorial intracranial hematoma should be considered for salvageable patients at increased risk of intracranial hypertension with particular perioperative features.
Chinese Pinyin Wang, Qiuying; Andrews, Jean F.
American annals of the deaf (Washington, D.C. 1886),
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The authors discuss Pinyin, a phonetic system based on the Latin alphabet, as an auxiliary pedagogical tool in literacy instruction in China. They provide a brief history of Pinyin and its ...educational purposes, then describe how it is used in its spoken/auditory, written, and signed forms by teachers with students who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH). Classroom transcripts demonstrate how Pinyin is taught via visual and tactile/kinesthetic tools such as pictures, sign language, and the Chinese Manual Alphabet for purposes of making the phonological information visible to DHH learners. The authors further discuss the different functions of Pinyin for students who are hearing versus students who are DHH and present new insights that may lead to future empirical studies on Pinyin use in early literacy interventions.
ASL Nursery Rhymes ANDREWS, JEAN F.; BAKER, SHARON
Sign language studies,
2019, Letnik:
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Nursery rhymes in American Sign Language (ASL) can be used in parent-infant and early childhood programs to support early acquisition of sign language, ASL literacy, and emergent English literacy. As ...a form of children’s ASL literature, ASL nursery rhymes manipulate the abstract, sublexical, or phonological structure of signs to provide children with playful language experiences. As such, these rhymes provide early sign language phonological awareness, which allows Deaf children to develop ASL vocabulary to bridge to English words as well as a vehicle to segment printed letters when reading words. This paper aims to: (1) provide an overview of the benefits of nursery rhymes; (2) compare the structure of English and ASL nursery rhymes; (3) describe how ASL nursery rhymes support ASL and English literacy, encouraging language play and thus reducing linguistic neglect; (4) describe studies showing benefits of ASL rhymes; and (5) provide implications for practitioners.
Higher education institutions are often well prepared in terms of accommodation policies and practices for disabled students. Ironically, campuses are often not prepared once disabled academics ...return as faculty. Most are particularly unfamiliar with the unique access needs of deaf or hard of hearing academics. This can result in career hindrances to employment and tenure, as well as potential losses to campuses in terms of diversity. Background and substantiation on this access issue is provided along with recommendations for policy-making and practices for campuses that are geared to ensuring career success for deaf and hard of hearing faculty.
The first genome scale model (GSM) for Streptomyces leeuwenhoekii C34 was developed to study the biosynthesis pathways of specialized metabolites and to find metabolic engineering targets for ...enhancing their production. The model, iVR1007, consists of 1,722 reactions, 1,463 metabolites, and 1,007 genes, it includes the biosynthesis pathways of chaxamycins, chaxalactins, desferrioxamines, ectoine, and other specialized metabolites. iVR1007 was validated using experimental information of growth on 166 different sources of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous, showing an 83.7% accuracy. The model was used to predict metabolic engineering targets for enhancing the biosynthesis of chaxamycins and chaxalactins. Gene knockouts, such as sle03600 (L‐homoserine O‐acetyltransferase), and sle39090 (trehalose‐phosphate synthase), that enhance the production of the specialized metabolites by increasing the pool of precursors were identified. Using the algorithm of flux scanning based on enforced objective flux (FSEOF) implemented in python, 35 and 25 over‐expression targets for increasing the production of chaxamycin A and chaxalactin A, respectively, that were not directly associated with their biosynthesis routes were identified. Nineteen over‐expression targets that were common to the two specialized metabolites studied, like the over‐expression of the acetyl carboxylase complex (sle47660 (accA) and any of the following genes: sle44630 (accA_1) or sle39830 (accA_2) or sle27560 (bccA) or sle59710) were identified. The predicted knockouts and over‐expression targets will be used to perform metabolic engineering of S. leeuwenhoekii C34 and obtain overproducer strains.
Development of the first genome scale model of Streptomyces leeuwenhoekii C34 to study biosynthesis pathways of specialised metabolites with antibacterial and anticancer activity. Razmilic and coworkers used the genome‐scale model to predict knock‐outs and over‐expression targets to increase chaxamycins and chaxalactins production.
In this special section of the Fall 2021 issue of the American Annals of the Deaf, the Silk Road, a historic network of trade routes used to import Eastern (Chinese) porcelain, silks, and other ...products to the West, serves as a metaphor for how our invited scholars bring their ideas about literacy learning of deaf students from East Asia to the Western world.
Twenty-eight deaf and hard of hearing Chinese-speaking public school children in Taiwan were tested on literacy achievement tasks at the end of kindergarten (T1), first grade (T2), and second grade ...(T3) over 2 years. After nonverbal IQ and hearing threshold were controlled for, the results revealed that early oral vocabulary and print awareness tested in kindergarten were related to word recognition in first grade. Moreover, receptive oral vocabulary (T1) was related to reading achievement in first and second grade. Phoneme (onset-rime) blending (T1) was associated with reading achievement in first grade, but not second grade. While onset-rime blending made more unique contributions to picture-book reading comprehension (T2), oral receptive vocabulary contributed uniquely to reading comprehension in T3 more than onset-rime blending. The time (in minutes) per week parents spent in shared book reading with their child was moderately related to reading comprehension at T3.
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