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Peer reviewedLaSasso, Carol – Volta Review, 1986
Reading comprehension performance of 50 prelingually, profoundly hearing-impaired and 50 normal-hearing Ss of comparable ages and reading levels was compared. Results indicated that although visual matching was used to some extent by normal-hearing students, it was used much more extensively by hearing-impaired students with comparable ages and…
Descriptors: Deafness, Reading Comprehension, Secondary Education, Test Wiseness
Peer reviewedLaSasso, Carol – Volta Review, 1984
A mystery box activity in which an object is hidden and students are to determine its identity through questioning can be used to develop hearing impaired students' abilities in comprehending and using question forms. A modeling strategy incorporated into the activity led to further skill development. (CL)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedDavey, Beth; LaSasso, Carol – Volta Review, 1985
Forty-eight subjects read passages and answered comprehension questions consisting of two information types (text-explicit, text-implicit), lookback conditions (lookback, no-lookback), and questions formats (multiple-choice, free-response). Analyses revealed significant interactions between cognitive style and several reading comprehension test…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Field Dependence Independence, Hearing Impairments, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedLaSasso, Carol; Davey, Beth – Volta Review, 1983
Scores on multiple-choice and free-response tasks were compared for three age groups of hearing-impaired subjects with comparable reading comprehension scores. Results suggest that hearing-impaired students' performance on comprehension measures, when reinspection is permitted, is not related to age but instead may be related to particular…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedLaSasso, Carol; Davey, Beth – Volta Review, 1987
Analysis of performance of prelingually hearing-impaired 10- to 18-year-olds (N=50) on a vocabulary comprehension test and reading comprehension measures supported the contention that lexical knowledge is an effective predictor of reading comprehension performance for hearing-impaired subjects. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Deafness, Knowledge Level, Lexicology
Peer reviewedLaSasso, Carol – Volta Review, 1987
Survey responses from 478 programs serving about 26,000 hearing impaired students indicated: the basal reading approach is used more than the language experience approach; the basal program, "Reading Milestones'" is the most frequent choice at all instructional levels; and only one-fourth of programs view standardized reading achievement tests as…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedLaSasso, Carol – Volta Review, 1982
The author points out assumptions to be considered in simplifying printed materials for use by hearing impaired students. It is pointed out that, according to psycholinguists, meaning is imposed by the reader on the surface structure prior to syntactic analysis or the sampling of linguistic cues. (SB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Material Development, Reading Comprehension
