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Six-year-old Gisela was born deaf, but she was fortunate to have parents and an older brother who used American Sign Language (ASL) regularly around the house. Now that Gisela is in elementary school, she is learning to read. Given that ASL rather than English is her native language, she may have difficulty with three of the following as she learns to read. With which one is she least likely to have difficulty?
 
  a. Distinguishing between similar-looking letters (e.g., b vs. d)
  b. Understanding common idioms (e.g., I have money to burn)
  c. Knowing irregular verb forms (e.g., went is the past tense of go)
  d. Learning letter-sound relationships (e.g., b makes a buh sound)

Question 2

Robbie Case's theory that children acquire a central conceptual structure for numbers can best help you explain which one of the following?
 
  a. Why 6-month-old Frederika is surprised when an experimenter shows her a display of three objects, covers the display and seemingly removes an object, and then reveals that the display still has three objects
  b. Why 8-year-old Eldon cannot answer the question, Which is more, the difference between 2 and 6 or the difference between 7 and 9?
  c. Why 12-year-old Heidi has difficulty understanding percentages
  d. Why 16-year-old Garrett has difficulty with proofs in his geometry class



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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

B



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