Short-term memory encoding strategies of the deaf

Deaf Ss, using an ABX procedure, evaluated nine consonant letters in terms of the subjective kinesthetic similarity of their dactylic representations. Ranked data were compared to short-term memory recall errors for the same stimuli in a similar group of deaf Ss (Conrad & Rush, 1965). Findings suggest that deaf Ss do not encode orthographic stimuli with a dactylo-kinesthetic system exclusively, if at all.