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Rickard, Carolyn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Research on joint attention and language learning has focused primarily on cues requiring visual access. However, this narrow focus cannot account for the emergence of language among some congenitally blind children who develop language on the same developmental timescale as their sighted peers. Findings from this longitudinal, retrospective study…
Descriptors: Young Children, Attention, Cues, Blindness
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Fichten, C. S.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1991
Sighted (n=37), partially sighted (n=20), and blind (n=17) participants answered questions about their expression and interpretation of verbal and nonverbal cues during telephone conversations, face-to-face encounters, and dating. The groups used an equal number of cues. Results have implications for developing specific communication skills of…
Descriptors: Adults, Blindness, Communication Skills, Cues