Revista Brasileira de Educação Especial
Print version ISSN 1413-6538
Abstract
BORGES, Cláudia Furtado; LOPES, Renata Ferrarez Fernandes and LOPES, Ederaldo José. Estudo das habilidades de memória e raciocínio simbólico e não-simbólico de crianças e adolescentes surdas por meio da bateria padrão do Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test. Rev. bras. educ. espec. [online]. 2010, vol.16, n.01, pp.83-94. ISSN 1413-6538.
This study aimed to explore memory and symbolic and non symbolic reasoning skills of deaf children and adolescents using the analyses of performance of the standard battery of Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT). Fifty five participants took part in the study. The collected data were analyzed through parametric statistics. The data suggest that the capacity to manipulate and to represent memorized symbolic information may be enhanced by school and/or extracurricular activities.
Keywords : Special Education; Intelligence; Deafness; Cognitive Abilities.