The effects of auditory deprivation on successive processing.

Reviews the literature on sequential memory in hearing impaired Ss, focusing on successivity and successive processing using the model of cognitive processing proposed by J. Das et al (1979, see also PA, Vol 53:8767). Results suggest that the syntactic processing of English is so difficult for deaf students because, while deaf individuals are able to use successive processing, the processing of linguistic information may be different in deaf children and adults than in the hearing. The spatial bias of deaf individuals seems to result in a decreased emphasis on temporal ordering. Implications for the development of speech and reading English by prelingual profoundly deaf students are discussed. (French abstract) (65 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)