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Scandinavian Audiology Volume 16, 1987 - Issue 2
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Original Article

Linguistic Abstraction and Hearing Handicap

Jerker Rönnberg Department of Education and Psychology, Linköping University, Linköping, the Department of Psychology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, and the Department of Psychology, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden
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Gunilla Öhngren Department of Education and Psychology, Linköping University, Linköping, the Department of Psychology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, and the Department of Psychology, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden
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Björn Lyxell Department of Education and Psychology, Linköping University, Linköping, the Department of Psychology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, and the Department of Psychology, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden
Pages 95-99 | Received 01 Dec 1986, Published online: 12 Oct 2009
 

Abstract

The present study aimed at studying compensatory cognitive functions in the profoundly hearing-impaired. Bransford & Franks' (1971) linguistic abstraction paradigm was employed as a means of testing the hypothesis that the profoundly hearing-impaired engage in a general meaning-abstraction strategy not necessary for the normal-hearing. Twenty profoundly hearing-impaired subjects and 20 normal-hearing subjects participated in the experiment and the results unequivocally supported the hypothesis. Clinical implications of the results are indicated and discussed in relation to speech-reading tests and to training programs.

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