Cognition, Education, and Deafness: Directions for Research and Instruction

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Index Page numbers for definitions are in italics. Abstraction levels of, 70, 71 in deaf subjects, 80, 224 Abstract thought, 25, 27, 76, 81, 151 measurement of, 152-54 Accommodation, 23, 24 Acoustic code, 97-98 Advance organizers, 85-86 American Sign Language (ASL), 105, 134-35, 225, 226. See also Sign language; Communication cerebral processing of, 97-98 as a first language, 137-40, 162, 215 influence of, on English acquisition, 7 influence of, on information processing, 111, 112, 113, 215 role of, in cognitive development, 81 use of, in bilingual instruction, 102 use of, by prelingually deaf, 88-90, 100 use of, in test administration, 48, 96-97, 135-36 Analogy, 6, 168, 176 Analytic processing, 94 in reading, 108 Analytic skills, 186 Analytic strategies, 56, 96 Aphasia, 94, 98, 116, 117 Aptitude Treatment Interaction (ATI), 158, 160, 162, 163, 165 Assimilation, 23, 24 Auditory input lack of, 88, 95 perception, 17, 77, 92, 204 Ausubel, D.P. theory of meaningful verbal learning, 84-86, 210 Bilingual instruction, 100, 101-02, 137-40, 162-63 Binet, A., 156-57, 162 Bloom, B., 159, 162, 163-64 Bridging, 144, 198 Bruner, J., 3 Categorization, 70-71, 79-80. See also Classification concept of, 77, 185 conceptual, 67-68 of deaf learner's abilities, 8 functional, 30 Causality, 226 Cerebrallateralization. See also Hemispheric specialization in deaf children, 101 determined with Positron Emission Tomography, 18 effect on spatial reasoning, 6 of language function, 16-17, 97-98 studies of, 96-97 Classification, 6, 9, 22, 70-71, 76, 79-80,81 Cloze procedure, 55 Cognition. See also Language assessment of, 148 competence, 143, 168, 218, 224 development of, 7-8, 10, 22, 26, 27-28, 34, 36-38, 45, 60, 64, 88, 152, 154 problems in, 8, 10, 79, 80, 145, 149 processing of, 94, 97, 128, 143 research on hearing impaired, 5-7 skills, 34-36, 66, 70 structures of, 23, 28, 53, 84, 86, 144, 203 tasks, 6, 25 training techniques, 3-4. See also Language Cognitive behavior modification (CBM),3-4 Cognitive style, 50, 55-56, 61, 62, 126, 132, 146 Communication, 38, 78, 88, 89, 91, 112. See also American Sign Language; Cued speech; Oral communication; Fingerspelling modes, 10, 98, 126, 143 samples, 35 skills, 30, 79, 80 Comprehension, 74 aspectsof, 55 229 Index Comprehension (continued) language, 129 processes of, 73 reading, 55, 56, 61, 62, 130 Computers in the classroom, 124-27, 130, 180-83, 184, 197 Concepts, 84 ability to form, 38, 50, 151, 224 analysis of, 185, 186 application of,S, 80, 168 categories of, 67 development of, 71, 82, 86 features of, 68 understanding of, 191 Context, 89, 100-01, 130, 137 Cued speech, 102 Cued text, 121-23, 130, 203, 205, 212 Cultural bias in assessment, 162 Cultural deprivation, 141-42, 163, 210. See also LPAD Culturally disadvantaged, 143, 161, 168. See also LPAD Curriculum bridging, 186-87 organization, 84-86 Disequilibration, 36, 38 Disequilibrium, 24, 60 Egocentrism, 25 Embedded Figures Test (EFT), 50, 51, 52-53, 60, 61, 62 Einstein, A., 17-18 Encoding, 88-89, 91-93, 95-96, 115, 129,205 Equilibration, 22-24, 36, 60 Executive level of processing, 202-03, 205-06 Feuerstein, R., 9, 59, 60, 141-45, 148-50, 157-59, 163, 164, 168, 172, 180, 210. See also Instrumental Enrichment; LPAD; Mediated learning Field dependence/independence, 6, 50-53, 55-56, 60, 61-62 Figurative knowledge, 211 Fingerspelling, 67, 95, 108 Free recall, 67-68, 79, 89 Furth, H., 3, 225 on cognitive development, 37, 151 230 on cognitive functioning, 151, 154 on cognitive skill performance,S, 6, 7,9 Generalizability, 4, 144 Halliday, M.A.K., 30-31 Hemispheric specialization, 18-19, 98, 118. See also Cerebrallateralization in commissurotomized patients, 94, 116 functions, 17 in hearing impaired, 95 left, 6, 18, 94, 96, 97, 116, 117, 118 right, 6, 17, 94, 95, 116, 117 Heuristics, 30, 31 Hierarchy of concepts, 80 of knowledge, 85 Horizontality, 47, 48, 60 Iconic signs, 76, 77, 80, 218 Impulsivity, 4 Inference, 9, 56, 73-75, 186, 218, 227 Information processing, 2, 5, 44, 56, 76, 84, 86, 88-89, 91-93, 112, 113, 202, 210, 215 theory of, 172, 181 Instrumental Enrichment (IE), 9, 60, 143, 144, 148, 168-69, 172, 177, 198. See also Feuerstein, R. Integrative reconciliation, 85 Intelligence. See also Cognition assessment of, 134-36, 148-50, 156-64,224 development of, 151-54 Interpreters in the classroom, 191-94 Intervention, 39, 97-98...