Studies in the psychology of the deaf: No. 2.

Abstract

It is our hope that the results of these investigations will contribute to a more definite understanding of the problems confronting deaf children and that they may contribute to the improvement of instruction.

Chinese Writing of Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Students and Normal-Hearing Peers from Complex Network Approach

“…These researchers have asserted that DHH students have poor or no linguistic competence, or that they have difficulties in understanding and producing sentences. The compositions of DHH students have been described as having “a simpler style, involving relatively rigid, unrelated language units which follow each other with little overlapping or structure or meaning” (Heider and Heider, 1941). DHH students show differences not merely in skills in the syntactic structures, but also in the whole thought structure (Heider and Heider, 1941).…”

“…The compositions of DHH students have been described as having “a simpler style, involving relatively rigid, unrelated language units which follow each other with little overlapping or structure or meaning” (Heider and Heider, 1941). DHH students show differences not merely in skills in the syntactic structures, but also in the whole thought structure (Heider and Heider, 1941). These combined results point to the conclusion that the writing of DHH students is frequently very deviant from the language produced by hearing people (Ivimey, 1976).…”

Speechreading (Lipreading)

“…According to Farrimond (1959) lipreading ability improves during the third decade of life and then rapidly declines. However, Conkhn (1917) did not find any deterioration of lipreading ability associated with age and Heider & Heider (1940) and Reid (1946) reported a very low and insignificant correlation. From this is can be concluded that a relationship between lipreading and age does not clearly emerge and further experimental work is needed to clarify this.…”

Influence of Yoruba Beliefs About Abnormality on the Socialization of Deaf Children: A Research Note

“…A number of investigators have also noted that the parenting styles of hearing parents of deaf children arise primarily out of the deaf child's inability to communicate with others about abstract events (Altschuer, 1974;Heider & Heider, 1941;Schlesinger & Meadow, 1972). Similarly, Roberts' (1979) review of studies on early cognitive development of deaf children led the author to suggest that concepts which have visual, gestural or other physical referents seem easier for parents to convey to the deaf child than abstract ideas.…”