The study took place in the tri-states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. 17 teachers and 24 d/Dhh students who were in grades one through four participated in different educational settings (general education only (n = 5), general education/resource room (n = 6), and self-contained classroom (n = …show more content…
It has been used over 30 years to teach d/Dhh students. Based on the research findings, it can be easily concluded that Visual Phonics is an effective tool, regardless of the students’ degree of hearing loss, communication method, level of education, and spoken language abilities (Beal-Alvarez, Lederberg, & Easterbrooks, 2011, Smith & Wang, 2010, Trezek & Wang, 2006). Additionally, three studies concluded that Visual Phonics was an effective intervention strategy for hearing kindergarteners who were at risk of reading