The Development of Visual Attention in Deaf Children in Relation to Mother's Hearing Status

• Authors: Chasin Joan , Harris Margaret
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Patterns of visual attention during free-play in deaf children with deaf (Dd) and hearing mothers (Dh) were compared at 9, 12 and 18 months. Dd children were more likely to look at their mother's face spontaneously than Dh children at all ages although spontaneous looking increased significantly at 18 months for both groups. The proportion of responsive looks declined at 12 months for the Dd group but not until 18 months for the Dh group. Elicited looking was more common in the Dd group and, at 12 months, a greater proportion of these looks were to the mother's face. Overall the results suggest that Dd children show greater sensitivity to the communicative significance of their mother's face in the second year of life.

Keywords

EN

DEAFNESS; MOTHER-INFANT INTERACTION; VISUAL ATTENTION

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-8
• Physical description: source-id: PPB_39_1\JP2745411387003Q.xml
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Chasin Joan

author

Harris Margaret

• Joan Chasin, Royal Holloway, University of London

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Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA07104

DOI

10.2478/v10059-008-0001-z