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Improving Phonological Skills and Reading Comprehension in Deaf Children: A New Multisensory Approach
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Daza Gonzalez, María Teresa; Phillips-Silver, Jessica; Maurno, Nahuel Gioiosa; García, Laura Fernández; Ruiz-Castañeda, Pamela – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: To explore the effectiveness of a multisensory program integrating visual, kinesthetic, and vibrotactile information to train phonological and syntactic reading abilities in prelingually deaf children between 6 and 10 years of age. Method: We examined whether the multisensory phonological training in combination with syntactic training…
Descriptors: Multisensory Learning, Phonological Awareness, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension
Nonsymbolic Comparison in Deaf Students: No Evidence for a Deficit in Numerosity Processing
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Rodríguez-Santos, José Miguel; García-Orza, Javier; Calleja, Marina; Damas, Jesús; Iza, Mauricio – American Annals of the Deaf, 2018
It is commonly found that deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students experience delayed mathematical achievement. The present study used two nonsymbolic comparison tasks to explore the basic numerical skills of DHH students. Nine prelocutive DHH students with cochlear implants and nine hearing students, matched on nonverbal IQ, visual short-term…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Mathematics Achievement, Numeracy
Differences in Praxis Performance and Receptive Language during Fingerspelling between Deaf Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Bhat, Anjana N.; Srinivasan, Sudha M.; Woxholdt, Colleen; Shield, Aaron – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Children with autism spectrum disorder present with a variety of social communication deficits such as atypicalities in social gaze and verbal and non-verbal communication delays as well as perceptuo-motor deficits like motor incoordination and dyspraxia. In this study, we had the unique opportunity to study praxis performance in deaf children…
Descriptors: Deafness, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Severity (of Disability)
Validity of the TONI-2 with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children.
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Mackinson, Jo Ann; Leigh, Irene W.; Blennerhassett, Lynne; Anthony, Susan – American Annals of the Deaf, 1997
A study involving 27 elementary children with hearing impairments indicated positive, moderate correlation between the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, 2nd edition, (TONI-2) IQ, and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, 3rd edition, Performance IQ that supported concurrent validity. The TONI-2 had predictive value for Stanford Achievement…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Hearing Impairments