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Discusses how multimedia stories on the World Wide Web are especially useful for children with deafness because video dictionaries of sign language can be built right into the stories. A federally funded project that developed multimedia stories for Mexican-American children with deafness is described. (CR)

An instructional prereading using American Sign Language (ASL) was effective in improving the ability of 7 prelingually deaf children (ages 11 and 12) to understand and retell a story after reading it in print. A six-step procedure for using the ASL technique is explained. Other applications of the technique and its appropriateness for public school settings are noted. (DB)

The article describes a four-week summer course in which an eight-year-old prelingually deaf boy helped undergraduate students learn sign language and the students helped him learn English print word/phrase equivalents. (DB)

Three high-school students with deafness and additional disabilities used microcomputer software featuring graphics and cartoons to improve their creative writing. Though use of correct syntactic structures did not improve, output of written language did increase. Descriptions of the software used and case studies of the three students are included. (JDD)

Discusses the use of multimedia technology to help develop stories in two or more languages for deaf children. Details on the design of a project for Mexican-American deaf children; Number of deaf children from Spanish speaking families in the United States. INSETS: Web sites for deaf culture;Web sites for Mexcian-American culture;Other uses for our trilingual multimedia stories;Multimedia stories support second-language learning