Multimedia Vocabulary Program for the Hearing Impaired

聋哑生和重听障学生的典型低水平表现 在阅读、理解和语言方面都有很好的记录。这么低 表现导致严重的学术问题，如科学和 历史。这种糟糕表现的一个主要原因是聋人学生 通常英语词汇量有限或不足。而各式各样的 教学方法已被证明能显著提高词汇量 对于有听力的学生，几乎没有努力将这些方法推广到 全面、系统的课程，旨在满足特殊需求 失聪学生。该项目将整合这些经过验证的有效方法 以研究为基础的课程设计程序和最新进展 利用交互式多媒体技术开发有效的教学程序 聋人和重听学生的词汇。在第一阶段，20个多媒体 使用图形、动画、屏幕签名、电影的词汇课程 并对文本进行制作和评估。原型课的功效 将对初中生和高中生进行评估 各种英语/美国手语(ASL)能力。如果第一阶段的课程 发现是有效的，在第二阶段我们将制定整整两年的 课程，并在随机对照试验中测试其疗效。 建议的商业应用： 该项目将导致一个为期两年的多媒体教学计划的制作 聋人和听力正常的初中生和高中生的词汇。它 将对聋哑人的州立、地区和地方学校具有吸引力 向学生以及培训聋人教师的机构提供援助。

The typically low performance of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in reading, comprehension, and language is well documented. This low performance results in severe academic problems in areas such as science and history. One central cause of this poor performance is that deaf students usually have limited and inadequate English vocabularies. While a variety of instruction methods have been shown to produce significant vocabulary growth with hearing students, little effort has been made to extend these methods into comprehensive, systematic curricula that are designed to meet the special needs of deaf students. This project will integrate such proven-effective methods with research-based curriculum design procedures and recent advances in interactive multimedia technology to develop an efficacious program to teach vocabulary to deaf and hard-of-hearing students. In Phase I, 20 multimedia vocabulary lessons employing graphics, animations, on-screen signing, movies and text will be produced and evaluated. The efficacy of the prototype lessons will be evaluated with both middle school and high school students having a range of English/American Sign Language (ASL) abilities. If the Phase I lessons are found effective, in Phase II we will developed an entire two-year curriculum and test its efficacy in a randomized control trial. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: This project will lead to the production of a 2 year multimedia program for teaching vocabulary to deaf and head-of-hearing middle school and high school students. It will be attractive to state, regional, and local schools with deaf and hard-of-hearing students, as well as to institutions which train teachers of the deaf.