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Enhancing Storytelling Ability with Virtual Environment among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2014)

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The study conducted a 3-month intervention to improve deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s storytelling ability through training in arranging episodes of temporal scripts, and telling the stories they created. We examined 65 D/HH children aged four to seven years who were divided into two groups: virtual reality (VR) technological intervention and pictorial non-technological intervention. Participants completed pretest and posttest measures and demonstrated significant improvement in storytelling achievements following intervention. In the VR group the improvement was much more significant. In addition, participants at an early age at onset of treatment correlated with children’s better achievements in storytelling.

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  1. School of education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Sigal Eden

  2. School of education, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Sara Ingber

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Eden, S., Ingber, S. (2014). Enhancing Storytelling Ability with Virtual Environment among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children. In: Miesenberger, K., Fels, D., Archambault, D., Peňáz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8548. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08599-9_58

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