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The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Learning and Cognition. Oxford Library of Psychology
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Marschark, Marc, Ed.; Knoors, Harry, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2020
In recent years, the intersection of cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and neuroscience with regard to deaf individuals has received increasing attention from a variety of academic and educational audiences. Both research and pedagogy have addressed questions about whether deaf children learn in the same ways that hearing children…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Learning Processes, Cognitive Ability
Learning with a Missing Sense: What Can We Learn from the Interaction of a Deaf Child with a Turtle?
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Miller, Paul – American Annals of the Deaf, 2009
This case study reports on the progress of Navon, a 13-year-old boy with prelingual deafness, over a 3-month period following exposure to Logo, a computer programming language that visualizes specific programming commands by means of a virtual drawing tool called the Turtle. Despite an almost complete lack of skills in spoken and sign language,…
Descriptors: Speech, Sign Language, Programming Languages, Oral Language
Cognitive and Communicative Development in Hearing-Impaired Preschool Children.
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Kricos, Patricia B.; Aungst, Holle L. – Sign Language Studies, 1984
Describes a study that determines if an interrelationship exists between cognitive level, gestural development, and spoken English development in five hearing-impaired preschool children. Results suggest that a deaf child's cognitive development may be related to his/her communicative ability, especially in terms of pragmatic-semantic…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Cognitive Development, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Language without Sound: The Orality or Literacy of the Deaf and ASL.
Batson, Lorie Goodman – Writing Instructor, 1989
Examines American Sign Language (ASL) in the context of the orality/literacy debate and issues of language and cognition. Posits that ASL is a natural language independent of English, and asserts that examining other modes of language use can illuminate the nature of discourse in both oral and written forms. (MM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Cognitive Development, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
Metacognitive Development of Deaf Children: Lessons from the Appearance-Reality and False Belief Tasks
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Courtin, Cyril; Melot, Anne-Marie – Developmental Science, 2005
"Theory of mind" development is now an important research field in deaf studies. Past research with the classic false belief task has consistently reported a delay in theory of mind development in deaf children born of hearing parents, while performance of second-generation deaf children is more problematic with some contradictory results. The…
Descriptors: Deafness, Metacognition, Cognitive Development, Task Analysis
Factors Predictive of the Development of Literacy in Profoundly Hearing-Impaired Adolescents.
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Geers, Ann; Moog, Jean – Volta Review, 1989
A study of reading, writing, spoken and signed language, speech perception and production, and cognition of 100 profoundly hearing-impaired students in oral and mainstream high school programs suggests that hearing-impaired students have much higher potential for literacy than previously reported, and that the primary predictor is English-language…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries