Deaf primary school children’s achievement in mathematics

Thesis

The present research aims to evaluate the extent of deaf children’s delay in mathematics, identifying the moderators of this delay and determine the longitudinal predictors of their mathematical achievement.

For five decades, studies have reported that deaf children lag behind their hearing peers in mathematics (Gottardis, Nunes and Lunt, 2011). Background factors such as age, degree of hearing loss, presence of cochlear implant and types of educational provision were previously hyp...

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Authors: Gottardis, L

• Publication date: 2016
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-a4m56bxon
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: working memory; deaf; logical reasoning; achievement; mathematics
• Subjects: Early and Child learning