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Study data from Utah State University update understanding of manual communication

Published in Health and Medicine Week, December 13th, 2010

2010 DEC 13 -- According to a study from the United States, "OVER TIME, children's educational television has successfully modified programming to incorporate research-based strategies to facilitate learning and engagement during viewing. However, research has been limited on whether these same strategies would work with preschool deaf children viewing videos in American Sign Language."

"In a descriptive study, engagement behaviors of 25 preschool deaf children during multiple viewings of an educational video in ASL were examined. The video incorporated research-based interactive strategies to facilitate engagement while targeting vocabulary through ASL,...

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