ACQUISITION OF LITERACY BY DEAF CHILDREN AND ADULTS

我们的研究目的是确定导致熟练技能的能力 严重听力障碍的语言前儿童的阅读和写作 和成年人。因为这些聋人中的大多数都达到了阅读水平 远低于正常听力的同龄人，这是伟大的 重要的是发现是什么能力使一些聋人取得成功。 这项研究的长期目标是提供坚实的经验基础。 用于评估聋生阅读教学方案。 这项拟议的研究是基于大量的心理学和 教育研究表明，提取语言的能力 并将它们有效地保存在工作内存中是至关重要的 阅读上的成功。建议的一套实验将打印出来 聋人和听力受试者的单词和文本，获得的结果与 两个具体的主题。首先，这项研究将考察分析词 失聪儿童和成人阅读。是书面的关系吗？ 和这些人充分理解的英语口语 它们可以利用语音和形态结构的优势 词汇通达中的单词？其次，研究将检查工作 聋人记忆及其与阅读理解的关系。 聋人在使用中遇到的持续困难是如何 基于语音的工作记忆代码影响阅读的特定方面 理解？

Our studies are aimed at identifying the abilities that lead to skilled reading and writing by prelingually, profoundly hearing-impared children and adults. Because most of these deaf individuals attain reading levels far below those of their normally-hearing counterparts, it is the great importance to discover what abilities enable some deaf persons to succeed. The long-term goal of this research is to provide a solid empirical basis for evaluating reading instruction program for deaf students. The proposed research is based on a substantial number of psychological and educational studies indicating that the ability to extract linguistic segments and to hold them efficiently in working memory is crucial for success in reading. The proposed set of experiments will present printed words and text to deaf and hearing subjects, obtaining results that bear on two specific topics. First, the research will examine analytic word reading by deaf children and adults. Is the relationship between written and spoken English sufficiently apprehended by these individuals to allow them to take advantage of the phonological and morphological structure of words in lexical access? Secondly, the research will examine working memory and its relationship to reading comprehension for deaf individuals. How do the persistent difficulties experienced by deaf individuals in using a speech-based working memory code impact specific aspects of reading comprehension?