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Havy, Mélanie; Zesiger, Pascal E. – Developmental Science, 2021
From the very first moments of their lives, infants selectively attend to the visible orofacial movements of their social partners and apply their exquisite speech perception skills to the service of lexical learning. Here we explore how early bilingual experience modulates children's ability to use visible speech as they form new lexical…
Descriptors: Infants, Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Auditory Perception
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Sagi, Abraham – Language Learning, 1979
Results of an experiment using perception and discrimination learning tests showed that, in children, perception is affected by labels, perceptual learning, and selective attention. These effects are determined developmentally. As age increases, the effects of verbal clues decrease and those of perceptual clues increase. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Children, Discrimination Learning, Language Processing, Language Research
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Rogow, Sally; Rathwell, David – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1994
This study, involving 20 children (ages 6-12) with legal blindness or partial sight, explored the relationships between ability to read and performance on tasks which require the manipulation of figure/ground relations. Significant differences were found between fluent readers and poor readers/nonreaders on four of the six tasks. No age…
Descriptors: Age, Elementary Education, Partial Vision, Perception Tests
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Ratner, Vivienne – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
The Test of Visual Perceptual Abilities and the Test of Spatial Perception in Sign Language were developed and administered to 682 hearing-impaired students, aged 8-18. Results showed that a significant relationship exists between visual perceptual abilities and the ability to comprehend the essential spatial components of sign language.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicap Identification