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A bimodal bilingual teaching team co-constructed a story drama delivery model for deaf children based on training provided by the researcher to the instructional staff at the preschool. The training presented story drama interventions originally developed with hearing preschoolers and elementary students. To examine the ontological, axiological, and epistemological commitments of the deaf-led instructional team, the researcher observed how the deaf-led team applied the training to their story dramas delivery to their deaf preschool students. Multimodal discourse analysis of video recorded classroom sessions of story dramas with deaf preschoolers revealed how the deaf-led team provided a strong ocularcentric, multimodal, and interactive approach to story drama, which differed significantly from the training model developed from sources on story dramas for non-deaf children. 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