Theory of Mind

Deaf and Hearing Children's Comprehension of Picture Stories and Judgments of Social Situations

Bibliographic Data

ID16768626
AuthorsSara L Rhys-Jones (Cardiff University, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume5
Issue3
Pages248-265
Publication date2000-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1081-4159 • E-ISSN: 1465-7325
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/deafed/5.3.248
PMID15454504
OpenAlexW2096425930
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited2

We compared 20 prelingually profoundly deaf adolescents (age: 11-16 years) and 20 matched, hearing adolescents on a picture-sequencing task and on a social judgment test. In addition, we also tested 14 younger deaf children (age: 6-10 years) and compared their data with those from 20 hearing peers as well as those from the older deaf participants on the picture-sequencing task. The results from this study did not provide evidence for the hypothesis that deaf adolescents possess significantly poorer knowledge about social reasoning than age-matched hearing peers, but it did present further additional support for Peterson and Siegal's (1995) conversational hypothesis: a proposal that a deprivation in conversations about mental states leads to an impairment in the development of an awareness of mental states in the younger deaf children.

Audiology · Cognition · Comprehension · Developmental psychology · Hearing loss · Linguistics · Task (project management) · Test (biology) · Theory of mind · Child and Animal Learning Development · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology

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