2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Relations of communication mode and memory strategy in the hearing Impaired persons

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23653313
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Special needs education
Research Institution	University of Tsukuba
Principal Investigator	CHUNG Inho 筑波大学, 人間系, 准教授 (80265529)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2012
Keywords	聴覚障害 / コミュニケーションモード / 口話優位 / 手話優位 / 口話手話等位 / 記憶方略 / 文字課題 / ドットパタン課題
Research Abstract	Hearing people code visual information into a phoneme information to memorizes it. In this study, the memory strategies of hearing impaired persons using various communication modes such as a spoken language or the sign language are examined by language information such as letters and non-language information such as the point designs. As the result of this study, a difference was not seen in memory strategy of the non-language information, but, for the memory of the language information, it became clear that the hearing impaired person who use sign language together with spoken language have special memory strategy utilizing sign code together with spoken code cord which hearing person well use.