Performance of deaf and hearing children on a short term memory task

Effect of reward on speed of coding for normal and hearing-impaired children

“…It has been shown that deaf children who maintain expected school progress score about average on the coding subtest while deaf children with language learning difficulties score considerably lower. Other investigations have shown: that deaf children usually perform less well than normally hearing children on tasks which require sequential processing of infonna tion (Withrow, 1968;Hartman & Elliott, 1965); that they do not process information as rapidly as nomlal children (Hartung, 1968;Elliott, Hirsh, & Simmons, 1967;Olssen, 1967); that the patterning of their reading skills differs from that of normals (Elliott & Vegely, 1967; and that they have uneven patterns of subtest scores on standardized intelltgence tests (Elliott, 1967). Since it is not known whether these effects should be attributed to features of the general background of these deaf children, or whether they represent inherent impairments in information processing.…”