1st Edition

Sign Language in Mainstream Education for the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Students in Asia

Edited By Gladys Tang Copyright 2025
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on two means of recruiting sign language to support DHH students in mainstream education in Asia. The first approach is educational sign interpreting, which has been adopted to support signing DHH students in mainstream classrooms in Taiwan. Contributions report on a questionnaire survey with post-hoc interviews examining the reactions of students, parents, a resource... Read more

Introduction: Sign language and inclusive deaf education: An Asian Perspective
Gladys Tang

1. Implementing co-enrollment in preschool education in China: A case study
Qun Li, Jia He, Min Liu, Ruijing Lu and Xueying Wang

2. The acquisition of Hong Kong Sign Language in deaf and hard-of-hearing children: A longitudinal study of sign language development in a bimodal bilingual co-enrollment programme
Philip Thierfelder, Gladys Tang and Jia Li

3. Measuring academic attainment and progress of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrollment (SLCO) classrooms : A case study
Chris Kun-Man Yiu

4. Sign language support in an inclusive environment: Educational sign language interpreting services in Taiwan
Hsiu Tan Liu, Han Ho Hsieh, Wan Ying Lin, Jean F. Andrews, and Chun Jung Liu

 

Biography

Gladys Tang is Director of The Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. She specialises in the linguistic study of Hong Kong Sign Language, language development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children, and co-enrolment education.