Theory of Mind: Deaf and Hearing Children's Comprehension of Picture Stories and Judgments of Social Situations |
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| Authors: | Rhys-Jones S L Ellis H D |
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| Institution: | School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF11 3YG EllisH@cf.ac.uk |
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| Abstract: | We compared 20 prelingually profoundly deaf adolescents (age: 11-16 years) and 20 matched, hearing adolescents on a picture-sequencing task and on a social judgment test. In addition, we also tested 14 younger deaf children (age: 6-10 years) and compared their data with those from 20 hearing peers as well as those from the older deaf participants on the picture-sequencing task. The results from this study did not provide evidence for the hypothesis that deaf adolescents possess significantly poorer knowledge about social reasoning than age-matched hearing peers, but it did present further additional support for Peterson and Siegal's (1995) conversational hypothesis: a proposal that a deprivation in conversations about mental states leads to an impairment in the development of an awareness of mental states in the younger deaf children. |
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