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ERIC Number: EJ558642
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0195-2269
Domain Specificity and Everyday Biological, Physical, and Psychological Thinking in Normal, Autistic, and Deaf Children.
Peterson, Candida C.; Siegal, Michael
New Directions for Child Development, n75 p55-70 Spr 1997
Examined reasoning in normal, autistic, and deaf individuals. Found that deaf individuals who grow up in hearing homes without fluent signers show selective impairments in theory of mind similar to those of autistic individuals. Results suggest that conversational differences in the language children hear accounts for distinctive patterns of understanding biological, physical, and psychological phenomena. (KB)
Descriptors: Autism, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Family Environment, Prior Learning
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Domain Specific Thinking; Knowledge Acquisition; Theory of Mind
Note: Theme issue: "The Emergence of Core Domains of Thought: Children's Reasoning about Physical, Psychological, and Biological Phenomena."