Early Blindness May Be Associated with Changes in Performance on Verbal Fluency Tasks

Autor/inn/en	Wakefield, Claire E.; Homewood, Judi; Taylor, Alan J.
Titel	Early Blindness May Be Associated with Changes in Performance on Verbal Fluency Tasks
Quelle	In: Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 100 (2006) 5, S.306-310 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0145-482X
Schlagwörter	Vision; Nonverbal Communication; Blindness; Auditory Discrimination; Visual Perception; Language Fluency; Task Analysis; Generalization; Individual Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Blindheit; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Aufgabenanalyse; Individueller Unterschied
Abstract	Studies of how children who are blind acquire and use language have focused less on cognitive compensations and more on delays in development. Vision is important in the establishment of early communicative patterns, and sighted children regularly use contextual visual information, such as a speaker's gestures and eye gaze, to make sense of speech that is directed at them (Mills, 1988). Some researchers have argued that, in the absence of vision, children may be expected to have more difficulty understanding concepts and the relationships between them and in acquiring generalizations about language and the way it works (Andersen, Dunlea, & Kekelis, 1993). In contrast, it has been argued that linguistic experience may be more important for children who are blind than for sighted children and that children who are blind may pay more attention to language (Chomsky, 1990; Perez-Pereira & Castro, 1997). This report examines the question of whether apparent compensatory changes in verbal fluency are concomitant with early blindness. The goal of the study was to discover whether there are differences between children who are blind and children who are sighted in verbal fluency, particularly whether there are differences in clustering and switching in fluency tasks. The data reported in this paper were collected concurrently with a larger data set reported in Wakefield, Homewood, and Taylor (2004). (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10