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How Deaf Children Think, Learn, and Read - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Deaf people's increased ability with peripheral vision is an asset in most cases, but can be distracting in a classroom. Teachers need to control the environment so deaf students can focus better
      - Deaf students often divide visual attention in the classroom among the information on the board, the signing/speaking/gesturing teacher, writing down notes, looking at interpreter, reading, and so on.
    - - A Deaf lifeguard, he saved more than 900 swimmers on Galveston beaches from 1918 to 1967. Combining his lifeguard skills of physical strength, stamina, endurance, his knowledge of tides and currents, visual attention, and motion detection abilities, he was quickly able to see and rescue swimmers from drowning.
    - - Parents use eye gaze not only for attention but to teach language and reading
      - Teachers develop better science and math explanations by using space required in ASL that mimic visual aids
      - Signing Deaf children develop cognitive and social skills faster because they depend on their vision to read faces and body language