News for ASL Interpreters

Some About.com Deafness blog posts continue to draw comments over the years.  A reader who is a musician with hearing loss, recently posted on the blog post "Desperately Seeking...Analog Hearing Aids." This musician said digital hearing aids simply don't work when he is making music. Plus, he mentions a blind study of digital versus analog hearing aids (I am not aware of this study) that allegedly found people actually had no preference. So many readers have complained about how companies are only making digital hearing aids while they prefer the sound quality of analog hearing aids. Apparently there would still be a market for analog hearing aids...if companies would make them.

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Four experiments, each building on the results of the previous ones, explored the effects of several manipulations on learning and the accuracy of metacognitive judgments among deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students. Experiment 1 examined learning and metacognitive accuracy from classroom lectures with or without prior scaffolding in the form of a description of main points and concepts. Experiment 2 compared the benefits of scaffolding when material was read versus when it was presented as a lecture signed for DHH students and spoken for hearing students. Experiment 3 compared scaffolding provided in the form of main points versus vocabulary, and Experiment 4 examined effects of material familiarity and a delay between study and test. Results indicated that although all students had a tendency to overestimate their performance, hearing students learned more and were more accurate in their metacognitive judgments than DHH students. Content familiarity improved the accuracy of metacognitive judgments by both DHH and hearing students, but the delay manipulation was effective only for hearing students. Consistent with other recent findings, DHH students learned as much from reading as they did from signed instruction. Differences between DHH and hearing students may indicate the need for explicit instruction for DHH students in academically relevant skills acquired incidentally by hearing students.

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Heeere’s John Maucere! Be the first to sign up for a talk-show with special guests! Stand-up comedy and sketches await you throughout the evening, and in between sketches, Superdeafy will appear!

75 minutes, no intermission, performed in ASL with voice interpretation

SHOW DATES: September 9, 10, 11 @ 8pm; September 12 @ 2pm

TICKETS: $10 in advance, $12 at door.
Purchase advance tickets through deafywoodstore.com
FOR MORE INFO: Go to http://bit.ly/INFO-JMSHOW

Deaf West Theatre, 5112 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, California 91601

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More info about Deaf West Theatre: Go to http://www.deafwest.org

Also, Live in Hollywood: The John Maucere Show will be on webisode at Deaf Nation. Go to www.deafnation.com

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