Children’s recognition of pictorial signs and symbols

The Knowledge Hearing Impairment Children Have About Common Public Signs

“…Brofenbrenner's model shows the importance of environmental factors in learning (Bronfenbrenner, 1989). This result is also consistent with previous research that found that children recognize the meaning of signs that are most common in their environment (Ahmad, Al-Zboon, &Dababneh, 2018;Brereton, 2010;Cooper, 2002;Daniels, 2001;Tolar, Lederberg, Gokhale, &Tomasello, 2008).Moreover, it has been found that children with hearing impairments would learn most from what they see. This is similar to children without hearing impairments, so the same teaching methods could mostly be used for both (Moss, 1995).…”

“…The result is not surprising because signs like mosque and bathroom are more common in children's environment, and therefore the children have had more exposure to it. The results are similar to what other researchers have found, which is that the more a child is exposed to a sign, the more likely they will learn the sign's meaning (Ahmad, Al-Zboon,&Dababneh, 2018;Brereton, 2010;Cooper, 2002;Stephen &Mathur, 2012;Tolar, Lederberg, Gokhale, &Tomasello, 2008). This is in contrast to warning signs such as no swimming, no smoking, stop, and danger, which children recognized the least.…”

“…al, 2008). The results were consistent with that of children without hearing impairments (Acredolo&Goodwyn, 1988;Ahmad, et al, 2018;Thompson, 2017).…”

“…Signs represent an object by way of social agreement that is what the sign means, and signs ask for action (Dewey, 1938(Dewey, /2008Langer, 2009).A study found that signs representing an action were easier for children to identify than signs representing an object (Tolar, et al, 2008). For children to integrate into their environment, they must learn to interpret signs such as exits signs, weather symbols, road signs, logos, and numbers (Ahmad, et al, 2018;Nelson, 2009;Teubal, Dockrell, &Tolchinsky, 2007).…”

“…Previous studies have shown that sign recognition can help in literacy development (Giles & Tunks, 2010;Goodman &Altwerger, 1981;Neumann, Hood, & Ford, 2013). Children see the word alongside a picture of what the word describes and through "visual learning" can understand the word's meaning (Daniels, 2001).A study of hearing children and their ability to recognize public signs found that many children did not know the meaning of common signs in their environment (Ahmad, et al, 2018). There is no study of hearing impaired children's ability to recognize public signs.…”