ERIC Number: ED247718
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1984-Jun
Pages: 27
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Developing Symbolic Thinking in Hearing-Impaired Children.
Knobloch-Gala, Anna; Kaiser-Grodecka, Irmina
Thirty hearing impaired students (11-14 years old) participated in a study to measure classification principles using demonstration or display of labels containing relevant words or iconic signs. Three methods of teaching classificatory principles were employed: demonstration, verbal labels, or iconic labels. Analysis of mistakes made by Ss revealed that in each case the use of iconic signs guaranteed better results. Iconic signs allowed for a more precise definition and a better separation of a part from a larger whole than did verbal signs. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Classification, Deafness, Elementary Education, Pictorial Stimuli, Symbolic Learning, Verbal Learning
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Note: Contained in: International Symposium on Cognition, Education, and Deafness (Washington, DC, June 5-8, 1984). Working Papers. Volumes I and II. David S. Martin, Ed.
