Reading Mechanisms in Orally Educated Deaf Adults

This study was aimed at determining the reading mechanisms used by deaf adults who had completed secondary or higher education. Our main hypothesis was that they used a reading strategy consisting of identifying (some of) the key words of sentences and deriving an overall representation of their mea...

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Published in:Journal of deaf studies and deaf education 2010-04, Vol.15 (2), p.136-148
Main Authors: Dominguez, Ana-Belen, Alegria, Jesus
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult education
Adults
Auditory perception
Biological and medical sciences
Deaf education
Deafness
Deafness - physiopathology
Ear, auditive nerve, cochleovestibular tract, facial nerve: diseases, semeiology
Education of Hearing Disabled
Educational Measurement
Empirical Articles
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Handicap
Hearing loss
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Non tumoral diseases
Orthographies
Otorhinolaryngology. Stomatology
Phonology
Psychology and medicine
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reading
Reading ability
Reading Comprehension
Reading Strategies
Sentences
Speech
Studies
Syllables
Teaching
Words
Young Adult
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Summary:This study was aimed at determining the reading mechanisms used by deaf adults who had completed secondary or higher education. Our main hypothesis was that they used a reading strategy consisting of identifying (some of) the key words of sentences and deriving an overall representation of their meaning. All the predictions derived from this hypothesis were supported by the results. In addition, an orthographic test showed that they possessed an orthographic lexicon richer than hearing group of the same reading level. This is in harmony with the key word strategy. Finally, most of the deaf participants (12 out of 14) reached scores in metaphonological tasks slightly under the level reached by the hearing group. It is speculated that the mechanisms of reading and spelling at play in deaf adults are based on phonological representations of words.
ISSN:1081-4159
1465-7325
DOI:10.1093/deafed/enp033