... simultaneous communication total communication bilingual education communication Institute of Education Sciences 10.13039/100005246 U.S. Department of Education 10.13039/100000138 R324A170086 University of Tennessee 10.13039/100007135 Language and communication are foundational in nurturing...

... questions about their communication patterns with culture of deafness (Dolnick, 1993; their deaf children. Parents’ communication methods Solomon, 1994), one practitioner were related to their deaf children’s self-esteem; parents (Desselle, 1992) found that in most who used total communication...

...Total Communication (TC) is arguably one of the most misunderstood terms in the field of deaf education. As it is currently defined, TC is a philosophical orientation to education that allows for the use of the full range of spoken and/or visual modalities in providing access to language. One...

.... This system can be used either alone or in coordination with speech, known as simultaneous communication (Sim Com), or alone. A fourth approach, known as total communication (TC), encourages the use of all forms of communication, dependent on individual needs. These longstanding debates have not been resolved...

... for the Deaf and the Blind, a public school. The analysis centers on the claims of competing pedagogies in deaf education: American Sign Language and socialization within Deaf culture, identity, and community and mainstreaming through Total Communication, speechreading, and Signed Exact English. The preference...