Teachers use a visual approach to teach English grammar to deaf students

Deaf students learn English visually

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According to the original story, Erin Stokes and Gorgeen Spyhalski, had difficulty teaching English grammar to deaf students.   They 'designed' a system of using visual clues, magnets, and symbols to help them.

I assume that the teacher would demonstrate the structure and follow normal teaching methods along with this approach, but it doesn't specifically say so, or say which methods are used with this approach.

This landscape language approach to teaching sounds interesting and I think it could be included along with speech and listening for  learners of English who do not have hearing problems.

I get the idea that perhaps these schools and teachers had relied on the audio-lingual method for teaching English.  That method would of course be inadecuate for people with hearing difficulty since it relies on listening, repeating and making small modifications to the structure in drills.   There are however other methods that could be made more 'visual' through use of computer software, posters, etc. Most teachers include visual elements in class by just writing examples on the boad at the front of the classroom or through the use of hand-outs.

I like the idea of having manipulatable visual elements since the students can become more involved than our usual copy from the board, write example on the board, check example on the board method which gets a bit boring.