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How Deaf Children Think, Learn, and Read - Coggle Diagram
How Deaf Children Think, Learn, and Read
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We usually run-to get a deaf adult to help a deaf kid, however that deaf adult also helps more than we think because they know how these kids learn, think, and read.
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DeafBlind
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DeafBlind people can provide such what it is to live in a tactile world and tactile practices in communicating.
IQ Tests
IQ scares proved that people who were deaf were still smart, it is just like the normal population.
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Junius Wilson was and African-American who was deaf. He was incarcerated for 76 years of which 6 were in prison. He was never even received a trial for a crime he did not commit.
McCay Vernon (1923-2013)
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Clinical Psychologists
Researcher
Author
Advocate for deaf teachers and administrators, use of sign language in schools and legal rights for deaf people.
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Thoughts and Language
We learn language, then label our experiences and concepts, then talk about them.
If people are deaf from birth, they are deprived of full experiences, which means they do not develop to their maximum potential.
Visual Skills
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You can not expect deaf kids to be writing while you are talking because they have to read your lips, watch what you are writing, they have to watch what you are signing, etc.
Visual-Spatial Skills
Signing deaf children develop cognitive and social skills faster because they depend on their vision to read faces and body languages.
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Teachers develop better science and math explanations by using space required in ASL that mimic visual aids.
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Memory, Spatial, Visual Spatial, & Motor Skills
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Playing video games can actually increase children's use of spatial and visual spatial and motor skill.
Incidental Learning
There are little things that you learn when you hear people, watch things, listen to music, etc. and learn, deaf people do not get that experience the same way hearing people.
Metacognition
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Theory of Mind (ToM)- ability to understand other peoples feelings, intentions, and emotion, and empathize with them.
Deaf children who sign from birth and have deaf parents have equal ToM skills with hearing children.
Deaf children who sign who do not have access to conversations at home, and with hearing parents who do not sign, tend to have delayed ToM skills.
Language Pathways
babies learn language through the ears, eyes and/or through touch.
Babies gesture and babble up until one year of age, then use spoken words and sign in increasing complexity.
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Language Milestones
Child-Directed Speech: parents and caregivers talk to their babies using repetition, exaggerated pronunciation, emphasis and other strategies.
Deaf parents, caregivers, use sign language thats slower, bigger, and exaggerated. They just use slower, bigger, and exaggerated.
Conversational triangle- is when the person uses sign language, the body, and an object so the babies can see the relationship.
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Language at Home
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Kids are first spoken to them when their parents realize they are deaf they go to auditory professionals that will try to develop spoken language skills through speech therapy.
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Then signed language becomes their "dominant" or "primary" language for the deaf child, over the language of the home.
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ASL/English Strategies
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Code-switching at the word and phrase levels (English-then, ASL-finish
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Chaining, sandwiching, or bridging- teachers go back and forth between ASL and English. (example- sign, finger spell, point to english text, then sign again.)
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Conclusions
Sign language, Deaf Culture, and multicultures all support the development of thinking, learning, and reading for deaf children.
They now have QR codes in places like museums to provide ASL, spoken, and written English so everyone can enjoy the displays.
