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Tomasuolo, Elena; Valeri, Giovanni; Di Renzo, Alessio; Pasqualetti, Patrizio; Volterra, Virginia – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2013
The present study examined whether full access to sign language as a medium for instruction could influence performance in Theory of Mind (ToM) tasks. Three groups of Italian participants (age range: 6-14 years) participated in the study: Two groups of deaf signing children and one group of hearing-speaking children. The two groups of deaf…
Descriptors: Deafness, Children, Sign Language, Theory of Mind
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Volterra, Virginia; Capirci, Olga; Caselli, M. Cristina – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2001
Studied the linguistic competence in the written language of deaf children and adults and the linguistic development in children and adolescents with Williams Syndrome. Presents qualitative data on spoken and written Italian from cross-sectional and longitudinal studies conducted over the last 10 years. Studying these two different populations can…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Children, Cognitive Processes