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Passig, David; Eden, Sigal – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010
This study sought to test the most efficient representation mode with which children with hearing impairment could express a story while producing connectives indicating relations of time and of cause and effect. Using Bruner's (1973, 1986, 1990) representation stages, we tested the comparative effectiveness of Virtual Reality (VR) as a mode of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Computer Simulation, Hearing Impairments, Time Perspective
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Braem, Penny Boyes – Language and Speech, 1999
Researchers comparing the signing of deaf early and late learners of Swiss German Sign Language were struck by the difference in the production of signs by two groups of signers. Specifically that the signing of early learners was easier to watch and understand, because it was more rhythmic. Analyses were made of temporal aspects of the production…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Foreign Countries, German
Miles, Barbara; McLetchie, Barbara – National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness, 2008
In children, concepts develop in a spiral, with the child at the center. A positive self-concept begins within a responsive caregiving environment. Concepts build upon one another. The more ideas and memories that a child has about the way the world and relationships work, the easier it is to develop further ideas. Once a child realizes, for…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Deafness, Concept Formation, Physical Environment
Kaiser-Grodecka, Irmina; Cieszynska, Jagoda – 1989
The natural sign language used by deaf children in Poland makes no distinction between present, future, and past tenses. Deaf pupils do not understand the notions of temporal sequence and duration of time intervals, and so are prevented from thinking of and planning for the future. The study with 15 deaf 12-year-old pupils and 15 deaf 14-year-old…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
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Maeder, Christine; Loncke, Filip – Sign Language Studies, 1996
Examines the influence of sign language structures on the spontaneous use of time and space markers in French and French Sign Language. The study compared the use of nonspatialized utterances and spatialized structures of deaf and hearing children, adolescents, and adults. Findings shed light on the different types of errors in understanding. (17…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Deafness
Zaslavsky, Claudia – 1990
This document describes the contributions of African peoples to the science of mathematics. The development of a number system is seen as related to need. Names of numbers, time reckoning, gesture counting, and counting materials are examined. Mystical beliefs about numbers and special meanings in pattern are presented. Reproductions of patterns,…
Descriptors: African Culture, Architecture, Art, Beliefs