I was always a good visual learner, but with only certain things. When it came to learning to read, I was tought phonectically and I find it hard to switch back and forth.
For what this is worth, I'm a phonetically speller and have been since I was tought to read. I tend to spell things the way they sound to me. I have noticed that my neice and nephew (both hearing) learned to read by sight.
I also pride myself in being a good speller, but I do have a word that drives me batty. The word "seperate". It's spelled wrong, I know. I think I know how to spell it, but haven't taken the time verify the spelling. I admit to being lazy. :roll:
Interesting, though, Naisho. For me, phonics was the way to go, but for others, sight reading is better. That goes for hearing as well as deaf, maybe?
I have found that the public schools laziness in embracing "Whole Language" is one of the reasons people do not learn to spell.
What I saw was accepting misspellings and misuses as the norm. No spelling tests or drills. Very little attention to structure of any kind in written work.Whole language equates to whole word/sight word for me. Are we on the same page?
Poor literacy skills can have life long effects, there is no denying that.
This is what I found based on researching and analyzing alldeaf, only:
I found 500 hits of a single word being misspelled. In these 500 hits, I found 45 unique usernames who spelled the word in pronounced form.
The dates of this search ranges from today until early 2008.
In these unique hits, of the 45 users I know for a fact that:
15 of them are confirmed hearing (5 are interps/to be's)
08 are late deafened (confirmed from their testimonials/comments)
13 are Deaf/deaf/hearing impaired (but I don't know their status of late-deaf or oral environment etc, childhood)
09 are of unkown status, and could could be deaf/hearing/late deafened
These are all based on a single instance, not multiple hits.
Then on another common variation in mistake of writing that word (another letter different, but still seems phonetically correct)
79 hits, 16 unique users on AD
In these unique hits:
04 are confirmed hearing, 1 is/was interpreter
05 are deaf, but of unknown deaf background (latedeaf/oral)
07 are of unknown status.
This is a result of my findings, so far based ONLY on alldeaf and it is not to be concluded as empirical in any shape or form, I'm just trying to give you guys "interesting" statistics and maybe fuel the fire.
Thanks for the heads up on the book, Psychology of Deafness, , by Marc Marsharck, et.al. I will look into this for some answers on the conclusive realm.. hopefully.
I dont know if I was taught to read using the whole language approach or phonetically. I should ask my mom. When I was a kid, I would get 100% on my spelling tests maybe 95% of the time.
What I saw was accepting misspellings and misuses as the norm. No spelling tests or drills. Very little attention to structure of any kind in written work.
The schools called it "whole language"
I think we are talking about the same thing.
What I saw was accepting misspellings and misuses as the norm. No spelling tests or drills. Very little attention to structure of any kind in written work.
The schools called it "whole language"
I think we are talking about the same thing.
I've seen deaf people misspell based on signing. For example, many of my third graders thought the word "wrong" or "mistake" started with the letter "Y."
Why? Because it is signed with the "y" handshape.
I have trouble with mispronouncing some words too. I think when a word is unusually long, I have trouble making it "flow" smoothly. I can't think of an example off the top of my head, but I do also mispronounce words that I am not as familiar with. An example I can think of right now is Baton Rouge. I never know whether to say the Baton as "bat-on" or "ba-ton" or "batten" and I don't say that city name enough to remember in between sayings of how I was supposed to say it.