Sociomoral Reasoning in Congenitally Deaf Children as a Function of Cognitive Maturity

The Sociomoral Reasoning and Behaviour of Deaf Children

“…Recently Markoulis and Christoforou (1991) have examined the operational and sociomoral reasoning of 70 congenitally deaf children, within the perspective provided by Piaget (1932). They tested their subjects, and 70 hearing controls, on three Piagetian tasks: (1) conservation of substance; (2) classification; and (3) class inclusion; and found a "slower developmental rate in the deaf.…”