Shared Reading Project
The SRP is designed to teach parents and caregivers how to read to their deaf or hard of hearing child using American Sign Language (ASL) and how to use strategies to make book sharing most effective.
ABOUT
Welcome to the Shared Reading Project (SRP)! The Shared Reading Project was developed by David R. Schleper, Jane Kelleher Fernandes, and Doreen Higa at the Hawai’i Center for the Deaf and Blind in 1993. Fernandes and Schleper brought the Shared Reading Project to the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University in 1995.
The Shared Reading Project addresses two major priority areas of the Clerc Center: (1) improving the literacy skills of deaf and hard of hearing children and (2) family involvement.
When parents effectively share books with their deaf or hard of hearing children, there is a greater likelihood of an improvement in the reading ability of their children. Book sharing also contributes to children’s higher reading ability in school”
How the Shared Reading Project Works
The SRP is designed to teach parents and caregivers how to read to their deaf or hard of hearing child using American Sign Language (ASL) and how to use strategies to make book sharing most effective, see 15 Principles for Reading to Deaf Children
