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Escudeiro, Paula; Teixeira, Dirceu; Galasso, Bruno; Neto, Nuno; Costa, Flávio – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
Serious games have a great potential to help people developing new skills or improving previously existing ones. Deaf and blind community face considerable challenges and difficulties regarding to the acquisition of skills in literacy. The design of serious games to meet the needs of the target groups where the deaf and blind people are struggling…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Game Based Learning, Deafness, Blindness
Spencer, Patricia E.; Kelly, Arlene B. – 1993
Three groups of 12-month-old infants (10 deaf infants with hearing parents, 10 deaf infants with deaf parents, and 10 hearing infants with hearing parents) were videotaped during free play with mothers. Infant attention state was coded, identifying periods as: (1) unengaged, (2) onlooking, (3) object-attend, (4) person-attend, (5) supported joint…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Child Development, Deafness
Parasnis, Ila – 1979
To determine if imagery mediates memory for signs and words, 80 sign-language-fluent Ss -- half of whom were congenitally deaf and half of whom were normal-hearing -- were tested by varying the imagery values of stimuli. The relative efficacy of word and sign codes in processing and retrieving information was studied by systematically varying the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conference Reports, Congenital Impairments, Deafness
Friedman, Judith B.; Gillooly, William B. – 1975
To investigate the development of the process whereby deaf Ss attend to the orthographic structure of written materials, the perception of words and letter sequences by 108 deaf and hearing Ss matched at three grade levels (grades 1, 2, and 4) of word reading was studied. Ss were shown three sets of structured/unstructured stimuli (such as "VUNS"…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Grade 1
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Baker, Charlotte – 1976
This paper summarizes most of what Sign linguists know about the function of the eyes in American Sign Language discourse. Here, "eyes" is taken to cover both opening and closing of the eyes and looking in a particular direction, referred to as the signer's "gaze-direction." Evidence is presented demonstrating that a signer's gaze can be lexically…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness
van Hoek, Karen; And Others – 1987
A study examined aspects of the acquisition of spatialized morphology and syntax in American Sign Language (ASL) learned natively by deaf children of deaf parents. Children aged 2 to 8 were shown story books to elicit narratives, and the resulting use of verbs contained morphological forms not appearing in adult grammar. Analysis of the creative…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Children, Deafness