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Mitch Weisburgh

Signed Stories Home Page - ITV Signed Stories - 0 views

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  • Mitch Weisburgh on 17 Oct 10
     
    The goal of Signed Stories is to increase the literacy of deaf children; however, it is a great resource for all children. After choosing a story, you will see the text, hear the story and see it in sign language. Almost 100 titles are available and can be searched by topic or by browsing all titles.The goal of Signed Stories is to increase the literacy of deaf children; however, it is a great resource for all children. After choosing a story, you will see the text, hear the story and see it in sign language. Almost 100 titles are available and can be searched by topic or by browsing all titles.
  • Mitch Weisburgh on 17 Oct 10
     
    Use stories on the interactive whiteboard or projector to teach story elements - pause as the story is read to allow students to retell details to the stopping point then make predictions of what will happen next. Help students understand disabilities and adaptations to disabilities through watching the stories being told in sign language. Use stories on the interactive whiteboard or projector to teach story elements - pause as the story is read to allow students to retell details to the stopping point then make predictions of what will happen next. Help students understand disabilities and adaptations to disabilities through watching the stories being told in sign language.
Tero Toivanen

New Nicaraguan sign language shows how language affects thought | Not Exactly Rocket Sc... - 2 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 27 Jun 10 - Cached
  • In the 1970s, a group of deaf Nicaraguan schoolchildren invented a new language.
  • It was the first time that deaf people from all over the country could gather in large numbers and through their interactions – in the schoolyard and the bus – Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL) spontaneously came into being.
  • NSL is not a direct translation of Spanish – it is a language in its own right, complete with its own grammar and vocabulary.
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  • Its child inventors created it naturally by combining and adding to gestures that they had used at home. Gradually, the language became more regular, more complex and faster. Ever since, NSL has been a goldmine for scientists, providing an unparalleled opportunity to study the emergence of a new language.
  • those who learned NSL before it developed specific gestures for left and right perform more poorly on a spatial awareness test than children who grew up knowing how to sign those terms.
  • The idea that language affects thought isn’t new. It’s encapsulated by the ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’, which suggests that differences in the languages we speak affect the way we think and behave.
  • Tero Toivanen on 27 Jun 10
     
    "...as human language envolved, our mental ablities became increasingly entwined with linguistic devices."
Amanda Kenuam

Watch For These Signs - Special Needs Vocabulary - 0 views

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  • Amanda Kenuam on 20 May 10
     
    " special needs, students, vocabulary, lessons, tools, interactive, flashcards, resources, road signs"
karen Janowski

ENVIRONMENTAL PRINT Series | Language Arts for Nonreaders (48 SIGNS/17STRIPS) - 6 views

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  • karen Janowski on 25 Aug 10
     
    learned about this from Kate's blog
Christine Southard

*Deanne Bray, a.k.a Sue Thomas from Sue Thomas, F.B.I!!* - Cinema, TV - 0 views

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shared by Christine Southard on 22 Mar 09 - Cached
  • National Theatre of the Deaf (NTD) in Connecticut
  • Deaf West Theatre
  • there are different kinds of deaf individuals," she said. Some read lips, some speak verbally and some do neither and only sign ASL, but Bray emphasized that people who are deaf have different backgrounds.
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  • "This series focuses more on what the deaf individual CAN do, rather than cannot do,"
  • Christine Southard on 22 Mar 09
     
    Biography on Deane Bray. You can find episodes of the Sue Thomas, FBI - Eye program on YouTube
Peggy George

FACELAND | Don Johnston Inc.-Help Students with Autism Learn to Recognize Facial Expres... - 0 views

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  • Peggy George on 09 Feb 09
     
    New software product coming soon--not free--works on both Macs and PCs Since skill in recognizing facial expression of emotions is important to functioning in a social environment, there is value in helping children develop this skill. But, what if it doesn't develop normally? FACELAND uses an Amusement Park theme to engage and motivate. 6 "Schools" introduce concepts as "clues" and 11 game-like activities offer practice that is fun!
  • Peggy George on 09 Feb 09
     
    very exciting new product coming out soon but not sure what the cost will be--you can sign up to be notified when it is released.
Tero Toivanen

Music Improves Brain Function -- Signs of the Times News - 2 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Harvard University researcher Gottfried Schlaug has also studied the cognitive effects of musical training. Schlaug and his colleagues found a correlation between early-childhood training in music and enhanced motor and auditory skills as well as improvements in verbal ability and nonverbal reasoning.
  • "[The findings] suggest that a music intervention that strengthens the basic auditory music perception skills of children with dyslexia may also remediate some of their language deficits."
  • Shahin said that when a person listens to sounds over and over, especially for something as harmonic or meaningful as music and speech, the appropriate neurons get reinforced in responding preferentially to those sounds compared to other sounds.
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  • Shahin's main findings are that the changes triggered by listening to musical sound increases with age and the greatest increase occur between age 10 and 13. This most likely indicates this as being a sensitive period for music and speech acquisition.
  • Tero Toivanen on 25 Jan 10
     
    "[The findings] suggest that a music intervention that strengthens the basic auditory music perception skills of children with dyslexia may also remediate some of their language deficits."
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