A study involving deaf and hearing children investigated the perceptual abilities of deaf children employing tasks with both simultaneously and sequentially presented stimulus material. A series of motion picture tests, mostly involving abstract geometric figures, suggested that deaf and hearing children are comparable on visual memory tasks and…

Compared was the visual memory of 18 deaf and 18 normal hearing children (7- to 12-years-old). Ss' visual discrimination and visual memory were tested with filmstrip materials from Project LIFE (Language Improvement to Facilitate Education). Time scores and error scores were used to measure the performances of both groups. Results showing that…

Two experiments involving 42 students from the Model Secondary School for the Deaf investigated both the visual and tactile components in the processing of spatial information. Test measures used were the Figures Rotations Test, Group Embedded Figures Test, and Tactile Rotations Test. The study suggested that spatial reasoning is a determining…

The study examined the hemispheric laterality of 39 deaf children in the upper primary and intermediate grades. (Author)

To determine whether interrelationships existed among visual motor perception, linguistic skills, academic achievement, and the audiological status of deaf children, 199 subjects functioning from dull normal to superior in intelligence (aged 5.6 to 11) were studied. The results of the testing revealed that visual-motor-perceptual dysfunction is…

To investigate the problem of speechreading failure, a battery of tests was administered to 60 deaf children, half of them poor learners and half good. Results indicated that those who developed speechreading did so at an early age and could deal with words, phrases, and sentences spoken at any rate whereas poor learners comprehended only words…