Deafness, language skills, and rehearsal: a model for the development of a memory strategy

We review a series of studies that evaluate the role of developing language skills as a prerequisite to spontaneous rehearsal use in deaf populations. We propose a theoretical model that summarizes the contribution of language skills by highlighting the interrelations among age, language proficiency, and automatized language skills. In an initial test of the model, an index of deaf children's language experience was found to be an almost complete mediator of strategy use. Increasing language proficiency, therefore, was implicated as a critical variable in predicting children's spontaneous rehearsal use, minimizing any direct contribution from age per se. In a more direct assessment of the link between general language proficiency and rehearsal use, pragmatic language skills (as measured by the Language Proficiency Profile: LPP-I) were found to be a nearly complete mediator of rehearsal use, with the remaining contributions of age and language experience being nonsignificant. Language proficiency, therefore, was identified as a strong and necessary prerequisite for rehearsal to be used spontaneously as a memory strategy. The additional hypothesis that the automatization of these general language skills, measured by a rapid automatized naming task (RAN), contributes to spontaneous rehearsal was also evaluated. Automatized language emerged as a partial mediator of the language proficiency → rehearsal use relation but additional language-processing variables were implicated. We discuss these findings as they relate to issues around the nature of language proficiency and the identification of those automatized language skills involved in rehearsal.     

人类活动历史新起源(英文)

Archaeologists announce discovery of tools and spear points in South Africa that may be 70, 000 years old.     

古代的文字

近似文字的图画你可能会想:“创造文字这件事情是怎样发生的?这是我们永远也不能知道的了。”人们在祖祖辈辈的相传当中,不仅是关于文字的创造者没有留下任何记忆,而且前辈们对于古代的人是怎样想到要创造文字这件事情也都不知道了。然而,有一个人,向我们十分生动、鲜明地讲述了古代创造文字的情形,就好象他     

就业前职业教育和再教育两者间的衔接

为了灵活地对生产及工艺革新作出反应，发展就业前技术教育与就业后再教育，阿斯那必克地方教育学校一年制专业进行了教学试验，并把结果反馈到企业。     

Clinical detection and movement recognition of neuro signals

INTRODUCTION Human limbs are complex, delicate systems.Their reconstruction, both for appearance and forfunction compensations, proves to be complicatedprojects. With the development of science and tech-nology, both researchers and disabilities hope to haveartificial limb much more perky, comfortable, dex-terous and effective. Although thousands of pros-thetic limbs are commercially available worldwide,most of them, from mechanical styles to electricstyles, from motion controlled t…     

学习领域和教学组织与安排

目前,教育界人士对职业学校的专业课程各持己见。有人认为职业技术培训过于理论化岸生无法在课堂上学到足够的应用性知识。所以,提出一个以     

Self-assessments and other perceptions of successful adults who are deaf: an initial investigation

More often than not, deafness is portrayed, not only in the literature in education and rehabilitation but in society in general, in a pathological way that focuses on deficiency, dysfunction, and deviance. Consequently, there has been a paucity of research on successful individuals who are deaf. The purpose of the present study was to help counter this tendency by gathering information from successful deaf adults. Fourteen deaf adults, who were nominated by their peers as being successful, participated in videotaped interviews. The interviews were transcribed, coded, and clustered according to common themes. Participants reflected on their success and made recommendations for children and youth who are deaf, parents, teachers, and employers. A summary of the results, limitations of the study, and recommendations for practice are provided.     

Joint rate control and scheduling for wireless uplink video streaming

INTRODUCTION Video streaming is becoming one of the major driving forces of next generation wireless networks. For the currently deployed cellular networks, the practical data rates are not enough to support full rate, high quality video applications. As a result, many research efforts have been devoted to adapting video content to reconcile the conflict between the high demand of video quality and the limited wireless communication resources among users. A large body of literature utiliz…     

舞动的心

“鲍勃!鲍勃!”我身旁的女人大声命令着,“告诉她你去年为什么不愿跟那个女人结婚!”桌子对面的鲍勃顺从地粗着嗓子回答：“哦,她呀!那真是糟透了!她对我说,要是想跟她结婚的话,我就再也不能去跳舞了!我就告诉她,‘噢,我想我做不到。’”