Full Description
This book is the first on the implications of intellectual styles for higher education of students with hearing impairment. It provides a systematic delineation for intellectual styles of students with hearing impairment in comparison with students without hearing impairment. It takes an initial step to present the analysis concerning the mediating role of intellectual styles in the relationships between personal factors and student developmental outcomes.
Contents
Introduction.- Two Intellectual Styles of Students with Hearing impairment.- Three Validating Verbal Inventories Through Test Accommodations Among Students with Hearing Impairment.- Style Overlap.- Style Malleability.- Style Value.- The Mediating Function of Intellectual Styles.- Stylistic Similarities and Differences of Students With and Without Hearing Impairment.- Conclusions.