ERIC Number: EJ1036601
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0885-6257
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Virtual Intervention to Improve Storytelling Ability among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children
Eden, Sigal
European Journal of Special Needs Education, v29 n3 p370-386 2014
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (D/HH) children reveal considerable difficulty in producing an organised and complete narrative. The current study conducted a three-month intervention to improve D/HH children's storytelling ability through training in arranging episodes of temporal scripts, and telling the stories they created. We examined 65 D/HH children aged four-seven years who were divided into two groups: virtual reality (VR) technological intervention and pictorial intervention. Participants completed pretest and posttest measures and demonstrated significant improvement in storytelling achievements following intervention; in the VR group, the improvement was much more significant. In addition, participants at an early age at onset of treatment correlated with children's better achievements in storytelling.
Descriptors: Deafness, Partial Hearing, Intervention, Story Telling, Student Improvement, Pictorial Stimuli, Assistive Technology, Computer Simulation, Matched Groups, Pretests Posttests, Early Childhood Education, Achievement Gains, Special Needs Students, Demography, Student Characteristics, Academic Ability, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Participant Observation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel
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