Summary Enhancing Cognitive Skills of Hearing Impaired Children with 3D Rotating Objects in Virtual Reality David Passig and Sigal Eden. Bar-Ilan University, Israel. The deficiency of the auditory sense in the hearing impaired raises the question, to what extent this deficiency affects their cognitive development and intellectual abilities. In studies that have been carried out over the years, many theories have been presented on the cognitive development and performance of the hearing impaired. The purpose of this study is to discover whether the practice of rotating three-dimensional objects will have an effect on the inductive processes used for shapes by hearing impaired children.
Induction is conclusive thinking in which general rules are reached from particular facts.
There are different forms of induction. This study focuses on the induction of rules , which is the process of discovering the rule that dictates the order of components in a given series. This research uses a new technological tool- Virtual Reality , to test whether it is possible to have an effect on inductive processes and sustain the cognitive development of the hearing impaired. The study uses a virtual 3-D computer game which presents the user with a problem to be solved by filling in missing information using a rule he must discover with the help of given stimuli. The best way to solve the problem is a combination of two variables shape and rotation.