Thinking without language

Furth, Hans G.

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“…In Piaget's theory, stages of cognitive development are characterized as occuring within certain age boundaries. While the delay experienced by deaf children in reaching the operational stage has been noted by other researchers (Furth, 1964(Furth, , 1966(Furth, , 1971Oleron and Herren, 1961;Templin, 1967) and corroborated by the present study, a relationship between age and operational thinking apparently exists for both hearing and deaf children.…”

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“…This finding that deaf children are del.ayed in reaching concrete ope·rations has been well-documented by others (Furth, 1964(Furth, , 1966(Furth, , 1971Oleron and Herren, 1961;Templin, 1967), who have found lags generally ranging between two and six years.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…Teachers of the deaf threw away their Fitzgerald Keys (the deaf education counterpart to sentence diagramming) and, instead, attended to the findings of Lenneberg (1967), who emphasized a critical age range (21 to 36 months) for learning language. They found hope in the writings of Furth (1966), 1 who claimed that deaf children think essentially like hearing children and would benefit from intensive exposure to language and who, like Lenneberg, recommended the use of -signs.…”

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“…On conservation tasks, a general retardation was found, although deaf children eventually mastered the concept. Furth ( 1966) studied conservation of weight in deaf children with a mean age of 8.5 and discovered that the performance of the deaf children was like that of hearing children about two years younger. Oleron and Herren (1961) examined conservation of weight and volume and found a six year lag for the deaf students.…”

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A Study of the Relationship Between Syntactic Development and Concrete Operations in Deaf Children

Dolman¹

1983

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Tremaine in 1975 found that bilingual hearing children made gains in native and second 1 anguage comprehension when they reached the concrete operational level. Building upon this finding, the present study examined the linguistic and cognitive skills of 59 severe-to-profound and profoundly deaf children between the ages of seven and 12. Through manually coded English, students were administered four Pi ageti an operation a 1 tasks in the areas of conservation, classification, seriation, and numeration and a test of syntactic comprehension. Students and teachers were also given a sociolinguistic questionnaire to determine the hearing status of the child 1 s parents, the age the child learned signs, and the sign consistency at home. Teachers and students showed a high degree of agreement in their responses to this questionnaire.Results indicated that operational deaf children performed significantly better than non-operational deaf children on the test of syntactic comprehension, although both groups of children had poorer English skills and a lower rate of operational thinking than did the younger hearing students in Tremaine•s sample. A relationship was found among operational thinking, age, and IQ of the subjects as well as between age and syntactic skills, but no relationship was indicated between syntactic skills and IQ.Students whose parents consistently signed to them showed greater English syntactic comprehension than did students whose parents signed less consistently. Children with more consistent sign exposure at home also tended to have more advanced operational skills, though not to a statistically significant degree. In both operational level and English syntactic skills, a slight advantage was found for those children using American Sign Language at home rather than manually coded English. This finding may be explained by the greater degree of sign consistency likely to be experienced by those children whose deaf parents use American Sign Language. Finally, a multiple regression analysis indicated that over half of the total variability on the test of syntactic comprehension could be predicted from success or failure on two of the operational tasks (numeration and seriation) and the child's overall signing ability, with age and IQ much poorer predictors of English skills.

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1983

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“…In deaf research, for example, among the MoSt pervasive questions in the literature (Conrad, 1970;Furth, 1966) are: How do the deaf encode? How do they think?…”

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Short-term memory and coding strategies in the deaf.

Wallace¹,

Corballis²

1973

Journal of Experimental Psychology

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This thesis investigates short term memory processing in orally and manually trained deaf children, as well as in hearing controls. The first two experiments used visual presentation of four-and five-letter sequences. Results were analyzed in terms of the rehearsal strategies, encoding processes and confusions. The results showed not only that the deaf were inferior to the heari.ng, but that they encoded verbal material differently. Both deaf groups, in contrast to the hearing group who relied mainly on articulatory coding, made extensive use of visual coding with four-letter sequences. The evidence also suggested that with the fiveletter sequences, the orally-trained group used articulatory as well as visual coding, whereas the manu al group utilized some other secondary code, which May have been based in part on kinaesthetic cues. The third and final experiment studied the comparative performance of deaf and hearing children on recognition of pictures of faces. For this task, the deaf were superior to the hearing controls. The implica:tions of these findings for short term memory theorists and deaf educators"are discussed.

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Prelingual Deafness

Vernon¹,

Rothstein²

1968

Arch Gen Psychiatry

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Thinking without language

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A Study of the Relationship Between Syntactic Development and Concrete Operations in Deaf Children

A Study of the Relationship Between Syntactic Development and Concrete Operations in Deaf Children

Short-term memory and coding strategies in the deaf.

Prelingual Deafness

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