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Deaf and Hard Hearing (D/HH) are made up of a unique community of people with their own language and culture. Previous studies reveal that D/HH students have a literacy problems. Literacy is the ability to read and write. Many studies have reported that D/HH students lacking in several skills that are required for reading and writing. This paper aims to survey the expert's opinion on D/HH literacy...
Bilingualism is the philosophy of choice for deaf education and literacy: deaf children should learn Sign Language for intellectual development, and the written form of the oral language. Unfortunately, educators are still influenced by the clinical view of deafness as a deficiency to be removed, and that view influences their pedagogical praxis that lack proper pedagogical tools. Additionally, there...
Dyslexia is a specific reading disability in word recognition, spelling and decoding. Students with Dyslexia require special adjustments to the text and text environment to be able to read better. Current studies have shown that many assistive technologies such as software application and other tools are available in aiding Dyslexia's student in reading. However, websites that support Dyslexia's student...
The Deaf use Sign Language for intellectual development, communication and other language dependent tasks, including the learning of the oral language in which they are immersed. However, Deaf children should no longer be expected to access academic learning using the oral language [1][4][6]. Rather they need to have access to a writing system in/for Sign Language. Writing systems (sequence of characters...
The Deaf have been denied their natural language for over a hundred years, with dire consequences for their health, citizenship and culture. Sign Language is the natural language of the Deaf, used for intellectual development and other human traits that are language related. Writing Systems (sequence of characters to represent a language) store and retrieve information for literature, science, knowledge...
There are learning and emotional difficulties for the children with communication disorders which involve a wide variety of problems in speech, language, and hearing. This paper aims at developing a Chinese PCS Editing Processor with Picture Communication Symbols (PCS), Chinese Text-to-Speech Engine and recording engine to improve the social interactivity and learning environment for the children...
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