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THE WRITTEN RECALL OF PRINTED STORIES BY SEVERELY DEAF CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Banks James,
Gray Colin,
Fyfe Ronald
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1990.tb00936.x
Subject(s) - recall , psychology , schema (genetic algorithms) , free recall , reading (process) , developmental psychology , linguistics , audiology , cognitive psychology , medicine , philosophy , machine learning , computer science
S ummary . 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 cloze 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.