The written recall of printed stories by severely deaf children.
The written recall of printed stories by a sample (N = 16) of severely deaf children (mean age 13:3) was compared with that of a slow-reading hearing sample. The deaf children recalled as much, or more, of the story content. In general, however, their recall contained more distortions of the kind that indicates a break-down of the temporal structure of the story. The writing of one story in Sign word order proved to have a facilitatory effect on close recall by the deaf children, but not upon their free recall (as measured by either the amount recalled or the number of distortions), thus clarifying a well-confirmed finding in the literature. The deaf had even more difficulty than the slow-hearing in employing a "top-down", schema-driven strategy at the whole passage level.
Banks
J
J
Grampian Region Psychological Service, Aberdeen.
Gray
C
C
Fyfe
R
R
D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D003638:Deafness / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D011932:Reading; D012813:Sign Language; D014956:Writing