Development of Deaf Children

K. Heiling

Presenting a longitudinal study of the learning processes and personality development of a group of Swedish prelingually deaf children who had been exposed to pre-school sign communication. It is followed by a second study, which incorporates a second group of deaf children in the same school who had not had the same exposure. Both studies point to the importance of easily accessible communication, i.e. a visual/gestural language mode, to social as well as intellectual development of deaf children. Those children who had such access showed superior development of written Swedish, as well as superior numerical and mathematical abilities. Hardcover 279 pages 1995

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