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Do you know if there are English versions online? Best, Huw On 8 August 2013 22:18, Lois Holzman <lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org> wrote: > Me too. > Lois > > > > > > On Aug 8, 2013, at 4:00 PM, Natalia Gajdamaschko <nataliag@sfu.ca> wrote: > > > > > Hi Peter, > > I use video "Butterflies of Zagorsk" (BBC production) and Awakening to > Life by A.Meshcheryakov (1974) in my Vygotsky seminar to illustrate those > different ways of mediation for deaf and blind children. > > Cheers, > > Natalia. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Peter Smagorinsky" <smago@uga.edu> > > To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> > > Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 12:16:57 PM > > Subject: [Xmca-l] deaf thinking > > > > I’m working with some colleagues in a small study group that is > concerned with what we’re calling post-disability studies, i.e., research > that eschews deficit labeling of people of difference (for me, mental > health variation; for others, ADHD overclassification and deaf education). > I was reading something that led me to pose the following question. > Although LSV was in part motivated to take on defectological studies in > response to the education of the deaf, I don’t think he ever gets into deaf > cognition, especially in terms of how, in the absence of language/speech, > thinking is mediated and represented. My question: > > Joe, one of the hallmarks of a Vygotskian approach is that thinking is > tool mediated, principally by language/speech but through other means as > well—images, sounds, etc. I’m wondering about people who have never heard > speech. Has anyone ever documented what deaf thinking is comprised > of/mediated by? Thx,p > > > > The answer from Joe Tobin: > > This is a hot topic in deaf studies. A group at Gallaudet called VL2 has > a NSF grant to do a series of studies on deaf linguistics/thinking/brain > development. http://vl2.gallaudet.edu/initiatives_and_projects.php > > > > Here is an example: > > http://vl2.gallaudet.edu/assets/section7/document163.pdf > > > > One paper also attached. > > > > Although I’m hardly a deaf education expert, I find this to be a > fascinating question. Am I alone, or are others out there interested as > well? Just don’t expect any definitive answers from me. Thx,Peter > > > > > > > >