How Do Profoundly Deaf Children Learn To Read?.

Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Mayberry, Rachel I.

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ERIC Number: EJ637168

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2001

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How Do Profoundly Deaf Children Learn To Read?

Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Mayberry, Rachel I.

Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, v16 n4 p222-29 Nov 2001

This article explores how children with deafness learn to read. It discusses findings that indicate children with deafness read by using a code that is not based on sound, the importance of understanding the language that is mapped by the print system, and what types of interventions are needed. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Deafness, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Special Issue: Emergent and Early Literacy: Current Status and Research Directions.