Six experiments are described in which deaf and hearing subjects decided the temporal order of events in picture series and in sentences. The deaf subjects, eight and 11 years old, performed as well as hearing children on a nonverbal picture sedation task. Both deaf and hearing subjects also described most picture series in the natural left-to-right order in which they were shown, and identified the left-hand picture in most series as happening first and the right-hand picture as happening last. In most respects, the deaf children’s linguistic performance resembled that of much younger hearing children. Two major results were that deaf children generally used a sequence of simple sentences to describe the events shown in a picture series, and responded to most multiple-clause sentences presented as though the events being described had occurred in the order they were mentioned.
Clinical problem solving may be enhanced through more direct application of research principles in the therapeutic process. The use of single-subject designs during the speech-language pathology clinical practicum experience, with subsequent transition into routine clinical practice, would allow for development of a "clinician as researcher" role early in the careers of future speechlanguage pathologists. This would likely enhance the objectivity of the clinical decision-making process and teach clinicians in training to rely less on potentially biased clinical impressions. To facilitate the use of research principles in clinical practice, 78 graduate students completed single-subject projects as a component of their graduate practicum experiences between June 1999 and December 2002. A survey of the first 25 students completing projects revealed increased reported understanding of research T
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