A Research for Strategies to Control Eye Gaze, Visual Attention and Manners in Presenting visual Information for Deaf Children.

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In the case of the hearing impaired, communication process depends on mainly eye contact and visual attention among persons and objects. Meanwhile, the Hearing are accustomed to audio-visual communication, monitoring voices and sounds to them or around them, they may look at any place or material freely. Because of such style of communication, the hearing parents and teachers are frequently lack the consideration for needs of communication to hearing impaired children unconsciously.The first object of this study is to find out the attitude and manners of Deaf communication in observation on interaction in Deaf families, and that of hearing impaired children and deaf teachers. The second object of our study is to investigate the effective strategies to comprehend statements from plural visual materials.The results are as follows :1.Deaf parents are always monitor their children visually, not only for communication but for security, as the hearing do so with voices and sounds. 2.Young hearing impaired children using JSL and MCJ now how to use sign, finger-spelling or voice properly in response to occasion and person. 3.Fingerspelling is useful media for getting attention to the order of Kana spelling and remind them. 4.When note-taking is used together with OHP, VTR or projector, handouts of those materials are very effective to learn. Especially those are given in advance. 5.Eye movement on visual materials consist of charts and explanations is different by on/off voice.