Abstract
Do deaf children develop cognitive abilities without being impeded by their lack of verbal language? Eight-year-old deaf children from a state school were tested on a nonverbal weight conservation problem. Hearing Ss whose performance was comparable to the deaf with 45 per cent success were a 6?-year-old group. However, behavioral criteria of discomfort at giving wrong answers were evident in a much higher percentage of deaf than of hearing Ss. The 1'-year lag in discovering the principle of this experiment between deaf and hearing children was interpreted as a manifestation of restricted experience in deaf children rather than a general retardation in cognitive ability to understand the principle.
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