Curriculum: Thirty Years Later
Blackburn
At present, deaf children desperately need an effective way to learn to read
English texts and ASL gloss is poised as a reading instruction approach that is
sensitive to the linguistic comprehension and decoding needs for the education of
deaf children. One way or another, all children, with or without disabilities,
deserve the opportunity to become fluent readers and to achieve that, attention
needs to focus on best practices for deaf children and learning to read (p. 48).
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