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Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 5:3 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

Empirical Articles

Theory of Mind

Deaf and Hearing Children's Comprehension of Picture Stories and Judgments of Social Situations

Sara L. Rhys-Jones and Hadyn D. Ellis

Cardiff University

We compared 20 prelingually profoundly deaf adolescents (age: 11-16 years) and 20 matched, hearing adolescents on a picture-sequencing task and on a social judgment test. In addition, we also tested 14 younger deaf children (age: 6-10 years) and compared their data with those from 20 hearing peers as well as those from the older deaf participants on the picture-sequencing task. The results from this study did not provide evidence for the hypothesis that deaf adolescents possess significantly poorer knowledge about social reasoning than age-matched hearing peers, but it did present further additional support for Peterson and Siegal's (1995) conversational hypothesis: a proposal that a deprivation in conversations about mental states leads to an impairment in the development of an awareness of mental states in the younger deaf children.

Correspondence should be sent to Hadyn D. Ellis, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF11 3YG (e-mail: EllisH{at}cf.ac.uk ).

Received August 19, 1999; revised January 15, 2000; accepted January 21, 2000


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