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Article Evaluation Bold text PRIMARY SOURCES You need to have primary and secondary sources in your writing. It shows where you get the information primary sources can be biased and may twist historical views. I kinda feel like if the information was on something we were interested in it would be much easier- my opinion the people on the talk page are talking about how primary sources are like first had testimonies or direct evidence concerning a topic that is being investigated. They are also talking about what they deleted and added and how someone was trying to combine two sentences into one (which made it confusing so that's why they took it out)

Bold text Literature Review The people on the talk page are talking about how literature review and semantic review and survey article and meta-analysis should all be treated as a different account and that each definition may vary based on the topic you are studying everything looked pretty good on this page content wise and it had references and had three different sources living review, review journal and empirical study of literature.

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different special education total communication for deaf children' Italic text add more to the talk page on how this is not used just for deaf children http://www.raisingdeafkids.org/communicating/choices/tc.php TC is a way of teaching children with hearing loss TC uses both hearing and seeing to communicate children may learn sign language gestures and body language to get ideas across Cued speech What happens in a TC program All TC programs are not the same:

In some TC programs, teachers and children always speak and sign at the same time. These programs encourage children to use the hearing they have left. These programs encourage children to talk and learn language. These programs usually follow a signing system based on English. In some TC programs, teachers emphasize learning language. Teachers may sign without speaking at the same time. Teachers may spend less time on using the hearing that is left and talking. These programs may use American Sign Language (ASL). ASL does not match spoken English TC helps children learn by giving them language

Lead Section rough paragraph Total Communication for deaf children is more than just teaching deaf children communication its focuses on teahing children stratiges to help them communicate better. some stratiges would be finger spelling, body language, sign language, lip reading and natural gestures to communicate. If a child is in a TC program typicaly they wear hearing aids or implants to help them furthure. According to rasing deaf kids these types of programs encourage children to use the hearing they still have left. TC helps children learn by giving them language. The two things you need to know about TC is that not all programs are the same and its not only used to help deaf children communicate it also helps children who may have down syndrome and its also shown to help boys who have fragile X syndrome since usually they learn to speak late. Total Communication helps to prevent frustrations and behavior problems that sometime happen when children can't communicate Heidi M. Feldman, Cheryl Messick, in developmental- Behavioral Pediatrics (fourth edition) 2009. the article is missing sources citations and just more overall info on the topic

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First Draft Total communication not only helps deaf children learn to communicate including children with down syndrom and other learning disabilities where it make communication hard especially for school aged children and the family envolved. total communication focuses on teaching children special stratigies to help them communicate better like finger spelling, how to use body language to tell people how you feel, sign language, lip reading and other natural gestures to communicate. Total communication encourages children to still use the little bit of hearing they may have left with the help of hearing aids or implants. Not being able to communicate can be very frustrating, this can cause behavior problems when a child is not able to communicate what he or she may need. Total Communication uses both a visual aspect and hearing to help children communicate. When a child is in a classroom setting the teachers and the students may always be speaking and signing at the same time, this is called simultaneous communication, this form of communication works best in a classroom type setting.

There is little research concerning that the use of total communication in child centers or his or her own naturalistic environment. It is considered to be best practiced In early intervention.

Teachers who teach these types of classes always emphasize learning the language first. These programs also follow the sign language system based on the english system. Some things to always remember when using Total Communication is that some children may need time to process info so give them time some children may need up to 10 seconds, also know when to use an open and closed ended question usually these questions are short and simple and only require yes and no answers. Using print like pictures or symbols can also really help children understand what you are trying to say.

total communication includes:


 * art
 * music
 * taste
 * objects
 * touch
 * hearing
 * written words
 * vocalisations
 * contextual cues

Total communication original intent was to provide children with the communication tools needs for children to develop complete language. But in later years the philosophy of total communication has often been over-simplified and has been confused with the simultaneous communication methodology that just simply combines sign and spoken language called sign language. Sign and spoken language can be both very effective when they are combined, but parents and teachers need to be sure that language competence is being developed and they also need to be that they are taking into consideration the strengths and needs of the individual child, because if not whats the point in all of this.