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Deaf Children: Think, Learn, and Read - Coggle Diagram
Deaf Children: Think, Learn, and Read
IQ Tests
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Many people thought that Deaf people were not smart because the tests were alwasy in English, now we know that intelligence is distributed normally in hearing and Deaf communities.
Ex: Junius Wilson was incarcerated for 76 years and never received a trial for the crime he was accused of because of the language barrier
Visual Skills
Deaf people have an increase ability with their peripheral vision, because of this teachers need to create an environment where they are not easily distracted like sitting in a circle.
Signing Deaf children develop cognitive and social skills a lot faster because they depend on their vision to read faced and body language.
Memory in Deaf people
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Interesting fact: Video games help increase children's use of spatial, visual spatial, and motor skills
Metacognition
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Theory of mid: ability to understands others feelings, intentions and empathize with them.
Deaf children with Deaf parents had equal ToM skills with hearing children. Deaf children with no access to conversation have delayed ToM skills.
Language Pathways
Babies learn language through ears, eyes and touch.
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