Deafness, Deprivation, and IQ (Perspectives on Individual Differences)

Handicapped in theory

What do psychologists think will happen if a child grows up deprived of intellectual and social stimulation, has to use a restricted linguistic code that is unknown to the local majority culture, and appears to be stupid? What if the child is aware of failing many mysterious `tests', faces unemployment as an adult and is beset by do-gooders who demand concessions from society rather than encourage realistic forms of achievement? Jeffrey Braden is an honest psychologist who admits he started out with the usual prejudices of guilt-ridden Whites about how racial differences in intelligence and attainment arise. Fortunately, he was propelled into realistic empirical endeavour by his appreciation that research on the deaf might bring home the firm evidence for social-environmentalist ideology that studies of Black people themselves had failed to deliver. Now, following his substantial record of academic publication (in the journals 'Personality & Individual Differences' and... read more