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Peralta, Olga; Salsa, Analía; Maita, María del Rosario; Mareovich, Florencia – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2013
Symbolic objects are cognitive tools children must learn to master very early in life. A crucial factor in cognitive development is the instruction or informational support children receive in social contexts. While numerous studies have investigated the relation between instruction and development in various domains, like language or symbolic…
Descriptors: Young Children, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Skill Development
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Hartmann, Elizabeth S. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2012
Children with congenital deafblindness are a population of learners who may need intervention in order to develop symbolic understanding. They experience a combination of vision and hearing impairments that can affect how they make sense of the world, develop relationships, and understand symbols. In this article, the author reviewed a…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Visual Impairments, Hearing Impairments, Thinking Skills
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Kyte, Christiane S.; Johnson, Carla J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
The objective of this research was to explore whether orthographic learning occurs as a result of phonological recoding, as expected from the self-teaching hypothesis. The participants were 32 fourth- and fifth-graders (mean age = 10 years 0 months, SD = 7 months) who performed lexical decisions for monosyllabic real words and pseudowords under…
Descriptors: Phonology, Grade 4, Grade 5, Word Recognition