The Effect of Sensory Experience Deficit on Blind or Deaf Students' Conceptual Representations
Yuru Wang · Zhongguo teshu jiaoyu · 2012
This article,by means of the conceptual feature-based free association task,makes a comparative study of the difference in conceptual representations of specific matters between certain blind or deaf students and normal students.The results show the following:(1) compared with the normal students,the blind or deaf students show few and dispersed features of association.(2) The blind or deaf students' conceptual representations,affected by their sensory experience deficits,show distinctive difference in modalities;specifically,the deaf students show significantly fewer conceptual representations of the auditory modality than the normal students,whereas the blind students show significantly more conceptual representations of the tactile modality than the normal students and the deaf students.(3) With the help of modality compensation and language learning,the blind or deaf students can acquire the conceptual representations of deficient modalities.