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The Gestures ASL Signers Use Tell Us when They Are Ready to Learn Math
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Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Shield, Aaron; Lenzen, Daniel; Herzig, Melissa; Padden, Carol – Cognition, 2012
The manual gestures that hearing children produce when explaining their answers to math problems predict whether they will profit from instruction in those problems. We ask here whether gesture plays a similar role in deaf children, whose primary communication system is in the manual modality. Forty ASL-signing deaf children explained their…
Descriptors: Learning Readiness, Deafness, American Sign Language, Teaching Methods