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Strategic and Interactive Signing Instruction
Sponsor: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Summary
Strategic and interactive approaches driven by sociocultural, cognitive, and language theories have accumulated a large body of evidence documenting improvements in more complex oral and written language skills. Growing evidence demonstrates that more complex sign language skills positively predict literacy skills and may lead to improved health outcomes. This project involves new applications of theory-driven strategic and interactive approaches in an intervention program to target sign language development in deaf children between 5 and 8 years old who are at high risk of language delays.
Official title: Strategic and Interactive Signing Instruction (SISI): An Intervention Program to Support Sign Language Development in Deaf Children
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
4 Years - 99 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
150
Start Date
2024-08-23
Completion Date
2026-12-30
Last Updated
2024-10-31
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Strategic and Interactive Signing Instruction
SISI centers on deaf children producing sign language compositions to communicate their messages with identified audiences, and teachers utilizing strategic and interactive approaches to bring attention to target sign language skills by consciously monitoring and manipulating language to create desired meanings grounded in socially shared understandings.
Locations (1)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States