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Deaf Children's Referential Messages to Mother.
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MacKay-Soroka, Sherri; And Others – Child Development, 1987
Examination of the nature and quality of deaf children's referential messages to their mothers, the outcome of such messages, and the reformulations of "failed" messages. Deaf children 6-10 years old, from oral or bimodal educational programs, were tested in two tasks involving identification and description of a picture. (Author/BN)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Manual Communication, Parent Child Relationship
Comprehension of Novel Communicative Signs by Apes and Human Children.
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Tomasello, Michael; Call, Josep; Gluckman, Andrea – Child Development, 1997
Compared comprehension of novel communicative signs to assist 2.5- and 3-year-old humans, chimpanzees, and orangutans find hidden objects during a hiding-finding game. Found that children at both ages performed above chance with all signs. No ape performed above chance for any signs not known before the experiment despite three times as many…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Cognitive Development, Communication Research, Communication Skills
The Development of Communication Skills in Deaf and Hearing Children
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Hoemann, Harry W. – Child Development, 1972
Channel properties of the deaf children's gesture language are discussed in the light of their communicative behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Elementary School Students