ACQUISITION OF LITERACY BY DEAF CHILDREN AND ADULTS

我们的研究旨在确定导致熟练技能的能力 语前听力障碍儿童的阅读和写 和成年人。 因为大多数失聪的人都达到了阅读的水平 远低于他们的正常听力同行，这是伟大的 重要的是要发现什么样的能力使一些聋人取得成功。 本研究的长期目标是提供一个坚实的实证基础 用于评估聋生阅读教学计划。 这项拟议中的研究是基于大量的心理和 教育研究表明，提取语言的能力， 片段，并将它们有效地保存在工作记忆中， 成功的阅读。 拟议的一套实验将提出印刷 单词和文本，以聋人和听力科目，获得的结果， 两个具体话题。 首先，本文将考察分析词 聋哑儿童和成年人的阅读。 是书面的关系 这些人的英语水平和口语 他们利用语音和形态结构的优势， 在词汇通达中的单词 其次，研究将考察 聋人的记忆及其与阅读理解的关系。 聋人在使用语言时所经历的持续困难 基于语音的工作记忆代码影响阅读的特定方面 理解力？

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?