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Highly structured drilling and focused on written language
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Monk Ponce de leon.
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Jacob Rodriques Pereira from Portugal. Was the first to use the natural approach when teaching deaf children
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Kept his methods secret! might have taugh students used fingerspelling, signs, reading and writing.
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Educators beliefs change. Children can acquire language like other children. Children acquire language thru natural conversation.
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T. Gallaudet and L. Clerc brought the highly structured system from France to Hartford, CT and renamed it to The Hartford System. Teachers assumed that children would learn the rules of language thru drills. The American School for the Deaf was founded 1817.
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Preferred to use the acquisition of the rules of grammar thru contextual learning. He disliked memorization of the rules.
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Rochester School for the DeafPlayed games, and activities using spoken words and fingerspelling extensively.
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This is modeled after the Theory of Ciphers - putting structured language into five columns 1) subject, 2) Intransitive Action Verbs, 3) Objects, 4) Prepositions; 5) Ojbect of prepositions.
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Although radical for it's time, this approach is based on the child's needs and daily interactions. Children will absorb the rules thru their exposure to signed language. Lexington School of Deaf was were it all began with Mildren Groht, the principal. The idea was that deaf kids will parallel hearing kids in the acquisiton of language.
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Streng in 1972 research showed that children need both methods of language learning. More of a heavier approach with preschool chldren then incorporating more structured methods with the older children.
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Developed by Blackwell and teachers at the Rhode Island School for the Deaf. This curriculum fosters linguistic knowledge and spontaneous language through explicit experiences while following a congnitive developmental model using five basic sentence patterns helping children internalize the rules of language.
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A Patterned Program for Linguistic Expansion Through Experiences and Evaluation. Founded by five teachers in Iowa of the Deaf. This program uses 10 basic sentence patterns as a foundation for a students language base, building small steps upon one another and then reinforcing the previous lesson in the next step.
