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- From: ALUCKETT%UTOROISE.BITNET@VM1.NoDak.EDU (Arleigh Luckett)
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- Subject: "egocentric" or self-directed signing
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:02:04 GMT
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- I am an early interventionist who works with young children facing
- a wide variety a barriers to normal development. I am also a
- graduate student. I have been studying Vygotsky's theory that the
- self-directed (or "egocentric") speech that is often observed in
- young children -- up to age 8 or 9 is actually the precursor of
- verbal thought or inner speech. THe suggestion here is that the
- development of language has important implications for the
- development of intellectual abilities.
-
- In early intervention we are often concerned with helping children
- who do not talk at the usual age develop some form of social
- communication. It seems it may also be important to consider how
- they might use such a form for self directed communication too. I
- would like to know if children who learn sign language as their
- first language have been observed to engage in self directed
- signing. Or for that matter do children who are deaf but are being
- trained in oral methods ever engage in "egocentric" speech?
-
- Self directed speech tends to occur more often in the presence of
- another person with whom the child communicates. At first, the
- other person may mistakenly think the speech is directed at
- him/herself but clues such as lack of eye contact and omitted words
- indicate egocentric speech.
-
- I would appreciate any anecdotes or references to research or
- accounts of self-directed signing in children age 2 to 9 years.
-
- Arleigh Luckett
- aluckett@utoroise
- Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
-